Steelton: Immigration and Industrialization, 1870-1940

by John Bodnar

Overview

A study of the immigrants who flocked to this Central Pennsylvania steel town in the late nineteenth century in search of employment. Comprised primarily of Southern blacks and Eastern European immigrants, they formed the lower class of this town.  Analyzes the social structure and dominance of the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant elite.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822960935
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	11/15/1997
Series:	Social and Labor History Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John Bodnar is Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor, Department of History at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Editorial Reviews

One of the best and most carefully researched studies of Slavic workers in an industrial city. A sound, scholarly analysis of ethnicity in one American mill town.”
—The Journal of American History


“[Bodnar’s] analysis of Slavic-American community life, and his descriptions of both limited ethnic mobility and its disastrous effect on Steelton’s blacks, make this a significant contribution to twentieth-century social history.”
—Journal of Interdisciplinary Study

From the Publisher

**** A reprint of Immigration and industrialization; ethnicity in an American mill town, 1870-1940, U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1977 (endorsed by BCL3). A classic study of social structure, immigration, and industrial growth. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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