FALLING FURNACES - Davin, Eric Leif
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The future of post-industrial America came to Pittsburgh in 1980. As the steel industry collapsed and disappeared in the Steel City, steelworkers, radicals, and activists of all types fought against the falling furnaces. This is the story of their fight against the destruction of industrial America by one who was there.

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The future of post-industrial America came to Pittsburgh in 1980. As the steel industry collapsed and disappeared in the Steel City, steelworkers, radicals, and activists of all types fought against the falling furnaces. This is the story of their fight against the destruction of industrial America by one who was there.
Autorenporträt
Eric Leif Davin is the author of numerous books, including Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914-1960 and Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office, both available from Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield. In addition, with Staughton Lynd, he is the author of Picket Line and Ballot Box: The Forgotten Legacy of the Labor Party Movement, 1932-1936. His award-winning history of the 1930s Labor Party movement, "The Very Last Hurrah: The Defeat of the Labor Party Idea, 1934-36," was published in "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s, edited by Staughton Lynd and available from the University of Illinois Press. He has also written three labor history novels, The Great Strike of 1877; The Paterson Strike Pageant: An IWW Novel of Bohemia and Insurgent Labor and Solidarity: An IWW Novel of the Steel City.