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Steel Town

Anonim
Steel Town Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Deindustrialization
ISBN : 1913620069

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In 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio - an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust Belt. Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures and photographed their suddenly fragile world: deserted factories, lonely bars, dwindling high streets, and lovingly decorated homes. Across these images, a prosperous middle America is seen teetering on the precipice of disastrous decline. Hope and despair alike lurk restlessly behind the surfaces of shop fronts, domestic interiors, and the fraught expressions of those who confront Shore's 4x5" view camera. Originally commissioned as an extended photographic report for Fortune Magazine in the vein of Walker Evans, Shore's multifaceted investigation has only gained political salience in the intervening years. Shore's subjects - including workers, union leaders, and family members - had voted for Jimmy Carter the year preceding his visit; now he found them disillusioned with the new president, fated to leave behind the Democratic party and become the 'Reagan Democrats'. Through unfailingly engrossing images by one of the world's acknowledged masters, Steel Town provides an immersive portrait of a time and place whose significance to our own is ever more urgent. With a text by Helen C. Epstein, author, translator and professor of human rights and public health.--

Brazilian Steel Town

Massimiliano Mollona
Brazilian Steel Town Book PDF

Author : Massimiliano Mollona
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789204346

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Brazilian Steel Town by Massimiliano Mollona Pdf

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city’s economy, and consequently its citizen’s lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Steel Town

Jonah Winter
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Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416940812

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In Steel Town, it's always dark. In Steel Town, it's always raining... In Steel Town, the mills blaze all day and all night, making steel and even more steel to be shipped over the Magic Mountains, down the Pitch-Black River, and far, far away. The men who work in the mills work as hard as the machines that make the steel, never stopping. But when the men go home at night, a different side of Steel Town emerges -- one filled with music and neighbors, pierogies and spaghetti, churches and front porches. This gritty yet poetic world is brought to life through Jonah Winter's lyrical, rhythmic text and Terry Widener's luscious, nocturnal illustrations, whose massive figures glow with the few lights that shine through this darkness. This is a portrait of an imaginary town derived from the very real American steel towns of the 1930s, when the sky was often black as night all day and the cavernous mills belched out fire and smoke. Here is a journey to a town that time has not forgotten, just misplaced: Steel Town.

Steel Town

Erik Carl Eklund
Steel Town Book PDF

Author : Erik Carl Eklund
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052285026X

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"Using archival records, oral history interviews, and company documents, this book charts the relationship between economic change and the human experience of that change in Port Kembla, Australia, an area seen by many Australians as a polluted wasteland. Also explored are industrial society and the impact of economic decline and deindustrialization, drawing together themes of migration, gender, class, and identity."

Closing Sysco

Lachlan MacKinnon
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Author : Lachlan MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487524029

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Personal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical ramifications of industrial closure in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the former steel city of Atlantic Canada.

Vanished

Jon Wells
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Author : Jon Wells
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0470676051

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It is Easter weekend, 1999. A rookie uniformed cop responds to a call of "suspicious circumstances" in a working class neighbourhood inn Hamilton, Ontario. The cop meets a woman who is afraid to go near bags left for garbage outside the house of a man named Sam Pirrera. The cop confirms the woman’s worst fears: the bags contain pieces of human tissue. The call for backup goes out and a homicide investigation begins. But who is the victim? Where is the rest of the body? The prime suspect is Pirrera, a steelworker whose inner demons and capacity for violence are inflamed by his addiction to crack cocaine. He cannot tolerate women leaving him, but several have tried to do so, including his first wife, his current estranged wife, and two women who have recently visited his house on dates. How far is he willing to go to stop them? Led by driven investigator Peter Abi-Rashed, who once chased teenage Sam Pirrera on the streets of Hamilton’s east end, police ultimately learn the unspeakable truth, uncovering a case that shocks even veteran homicide and forensic investigators. Award-winning journalist and author Jon Wells takes readers into the heart of a real-life crime scene investigation and into the chaotic mind of a murderous control freak. Wells, Canada’s top true mystery writer, crafts a novelistic story that is true in every detail, at once darkly disturbing and deeply moving.

Beautiful Scars

Tom Wilson
Beautiful Scars Book PDF

Author : Tom Wilson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385685672

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"I'm scared and scarred but I’ve survived" Tom Wilson was raised in the rough-and-tumble world of Hamilton—Steeltown— in the company of World War II vets, factory workers, fall-guy wrestlers and the deeply guarded secrets kept by his parents, Bunny and George. For decades Tom carved out a life for himself in shadows. He built an international music career and became a father, he battled demons and addiction, and he waited, hoping for the lies to cease and the truth to emerge. It would. And when it did, it would sweep up the St. Lawrence River to the Mohawk reserves of Quebec, on to the heights of the Manhattan skyline. With a rare gift for storytelling and an astonishing story to tell, Tom writes with unflinching honesty and extraordinary compassion about his search for the truth. It's a story about scars, about the ones that hurt us, and the ones that make us who we are. From Beautiful Scars: Even as a kid my existence as the son of Bunny and George Wilson seemed far-fetched to me. When I went over it in my head, none of it added up. The other kids on East 36th Street in Hamilton used to tell me stories of their mothers being pregnant and their newborn siblings coming home from the hospital. Nobody ever talked about Bunny's and my return from the hospital. In my mind my birth was like the nativity, only with gnarly dogs and dirty snow and a chipped picket fence and old blind people with short tempers and dim lights, ashtrays full of Export Plain cigarette butts and bottles of rum. Once, when I was about four, I asked Bunny, "How come I don't look anything like you and George? How come you are old and the other moms are young?" "There are secrets I know about you that I’ll take to my grave," she responded. And that pretty well finished that. Bunny built up a wall to protect her secrets, and as a result I built a wall to protect myself.

Steeltown U.S.A.

Sherry Lee Linkon,John Russo
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Author : Sherry Lee Linkon,John Russo
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700612925

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Steeltown U.S.A. by Sherry Lee Linkon,John Russo Pdf

Once the symbol of a robust steel industry and blue-collar economy, Youngstown, Ohio, and its famous Jeannette Blast Furnace have become key icons in the tragic tale of American deindustrialization. Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo examine the inevitable tension between those discordant visions, which continue to exert great power over Steeltown's citizens as they struggle to redefine their lives. When "the Jenny" was shut down in 1978, 50,000 Youngstown workers lost their jobs, cutting the heart out of the local economy. Even as the community organized a nationally recognized effort to save the mills, the city was rocked by economic devastation, runaway crime, and mob scandal, problems that persist twenty-five years later. In the midst of these struggles the Jenny remained standing as a proud symbol of the community's glory days, still a dominant force in the construction of both individual and collective identities in Youngstown. Focusing on stories and images that both reflect and perpetuate how Youngstown understands itself as a community, Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo have forged a historical and cultural study of the relationship between community, memory, work, and conflict. Drawing on written texts, visual images, sculptures, films, songs, and interviews with people who have lived and worked in Youngstown, the authors show the importance of memory in forming the collective identity of a place. Steeltown, U.S.A. is a richly developed portrait of a place, showing how images of the Jenny and of Youngstown have been used in national media and connecting these representations to the broader public conversation about work and place: Bruce Springsteen's song "Youngstown," the book Journey to Nowhere, and other pop culture artifacts have helped make Youngstown the symbolic epicenter of American deindustrialization. And while many people see the need to get over the past and on with the future, in rushing to erase the difficult parts of Youngstown's history they might also forget the powerful events that made the city so important, such as the struggles for economic and social justice that improved the lives of steelworkers. This multifaceted study of the meaning of work and place in one community pointedly depicts the relationships among economic development, media representations, and community life. As we see how people's faith in the value of their work dwindled away in Youngstown, their stories can help us understand not only how the meaning of work has changed but also why the changing meaning of work matters.

Classes of Labour

Jonathan Parry
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Author : Jonathan Parry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351362849

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Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the ‘structuration’ of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called ‘working class’ has any realistic prospect of unity.

Steeltown Blues

Richard Mousseau
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Author : Richard Mousseau
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780968185285

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Steeltown Blues by Richard Mousseau Pdf

Only two boys from Steeltown have survived. The past has affected their lives. Living and working in a steel mill town is the cause of past and future events in their lives. Salami is unable to settle down to a married life and is too eager to follow the free spirit of his friend Boo. Leaving town seems to be their only way out, an escape. To escape from what or whom? There are those who wish to even up past scores. They are willing to follow to extremes in order to inflict terror and pain on Salami and Boo. To what end is in store for two friends wishing only to escape the confines of working in a steel mill. Will they be able to escape those Steeltown Blues? Quotes: My hopes for the boys were dashed during the reading of the last few pages. I felt hurt and angry when I read about Boo and Salami, boys I enjoyed following page after page. Through the whole book, I felt as if I were travelling and living the excitement and disappointments of life alongside of the boys.

Steel Town Girl

Robin Donnelly
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Author : Robin Donnelly
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726119912

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Growing up in a hardscrabble steel town in West Virginia, Robin wants just one thing: to be happy. But that's hard to do when your parents have substance-abuse problems, anger-management issues, and expect you to be the one to raise your baby brother.And when Robin's parents split up? It's no better. Traveling back and forth between the homes of an abusive father and neglectful mother, it's tough to tell which is the frying pan and which is the fire. Always on the move, never staying in one place long enough to grow roots or make lasting friends, Robin learns to navigate her uncertain universe by coming to rely on one amazingly strong and resilient person: herself.Reminiscent of Jeanette Walls' Glass Castle and Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors, this brave memoir is a welcome addition to the dysfunctional-literature bookshelf. At once moving and tender, courageous and fierce, with a healing dose of humor tossed in, this against-the-odds story of one steel town girl will win readers' hearts. A triumph.

Steeltown

Richard Mousseau
Steeltown Book PDF

Author : Richard Mousseau
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780969831983

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Steeltown captures the tragedies in a steel mill town. Follow the lives of four young friends struggling to overcome the pressures of growing up. Who will survive the perils of innocence? Do accidents become the mysteries of rumours of murder. In a steel town hidden behind the walls of a steel mill, murder is not an accident. Live the lives of four young men as they work their first summer in a steel mill of Steeltown. Times can be good, bad and ugly. You will laugh and cry for the boys. The women of Steeltown are not, innocent bystanders, they are sometimes the cause of man's turmoil. Steeltown will shock you. Quotes: A realistic account of young friendship. For two days of reading, this book flowed like a movie. A-one-of-a-kind novel, I was not disappointed, I could not put it down, wanting to read just a little further. After reading of the tragedies that occurred in Steeltown, I was afraid to seek my first summer job in a local steel plant.

Homestead

William Serrin
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Author : William Serrin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015025294342

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Examines the business, labor, and human history of Homestead, Pennsylvania, the heart of the American steel industry.

Steeltown, USSR

Stephen Kotkin
Steeltown USSR Book PDF

Author : Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520911000

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No one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation eventually affecting the entire postwar world order, are here chronicled from inside a previously forbidden Soviet city, Magnitogorsk. Built under Stalin and championed by him as a showcase of socialism, the city remained closed to Western scrutiny until four years ago, when Stephen Kotkin became the first American to live there in nearly half a century. An uncommonly perceptive observer, a gifted writer, and a first-rate social scientist, Kotkin offers the reader an unsurpassed portrait of daily life in the Gorbachev era. From the formation of "informal" political groups to the start-up of fledgling businesses in the new cooperative sector, from the no-holds-barred investigative reporting of a former Communist party mouthpiece to a freewheeling multicandidate election campaign, the author conveys the texture of contemporary Soviet society in the throes of an upheaval not seen since the 1930s. Magnitogorsk, a planned "garden city" in the Ural Mountains, serves as Kotkin's laboratory for observing the revolutionary changes occurring in the Soviet Union today. Dominated by a self-perpetuating Communist party machine, choked by industrial pollution, and haunted by a suppressed past, this once-proud city now faces an uncertain future, as do the more than one thousand other industrial cities throughout the Soviet Union. Kotkin made his remarkable first visit in 1987 and returned in 1989. On both occasions, steelworkers and schoolteachers, bus drivers and housewives, intellectuals and former victims of oppression—all willingly stepped forward to voice long-suppressed grievances and aspirations. Their words animate this moving narrative, the first to examine the impact and contradictions of perestroika in a single community. Like no other Soviet city, Magnitogorsk provides a window onto the desperate struggle to overcome the heavy burden of Stalin's legacy.

Radical Art

Helen Langa
Radical Art Book PDF

Author : Helen Langa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520231554

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