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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Olson |
| ISBN: | 0271026855 9780271026855 |
| OCLC Number: | 61179549 |
| Description: | x, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Sparrows Point, Turner Station, and Dundalk : the history of the mill's communities -- The gendered world of steel : it's a man's world inside the Sparrows Point mill -- Boarders and the long turn in a company town : Sparrows Point wives, 1887-1945 -- The family works the schedule : steelworkers' wives, 1945-1970 -- Women steelworkers at Sparrows Point : interlopers in a man's world -- Deindustrialization at Sparrows Point : disappearance of the breadwinner/homemaker family, 1970-2000 -- Renegotiating families with two breadwinners : partnership and divorce -- A larger circle of neighbors : deindustrialization and the web of class, race, gender, and location. |
| Responsibility: | Karen Olson. |
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Abstract:
"During its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, the Bethlehem Steel mill at Sparrows Point near Baltimore was one of the world's largest steel plants, employing as many as 30,000 workers. But these glory years were shortlived: the American steel industry soon collapsed, taking with it the high-income industrial jobs that many Sparrows Point workers had come to enjoy. This familiar tale of decline in America's industrial heartland is only part of the story, however. In response to down-sizing and job loss at Sparrows Point, many women entered the workforce to fulfill the needs of their families living in the adjacent communities of Turners Station and Dundalk. Wives of Steel tells the story of these women who abandoned traditional gender roles and, in the process, contributed to the economic survival of their communities." "Wives of Steel is based on more than eighty formal interviews conducted over a fifteen-year period with women and some men, both white and black, all of whom were part of Sparrows Point as workers, spouses, or longtime residents of the local communities. Through the stories they tell, we see how a male-dominated industry has influenced personal, family, and social experiences over several generations. We also see the distinct differences and surprising similarities among the lives of black and white women, which often reflect the complicated relationships among black and white steelworkers in the plant." "Combining consummate research with vivid firsthand accounts, Wives of Steel tells a story that continues to be played out in communities across America as working-class families are forced to cope with a globalizing economy."--BOOK JACKET.
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