Twentieth Century Pittsburgh

Author : Roy Lubove
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0822971674

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Twentieth-century Pittsburgh: The post-steel era by Roy Lubove Pdf

This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results.

Author : Roy Lubove
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 082297164X

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Twentieth-century Pittsburgh: Government, business, and environmental change by Roy Lubove Pdf

Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book continues to be invaluable to anyone interested in the fate of America's beleaguered metropolitan and industrial centers.

Author : Maurine Weiner Greenwald,Margo J. Anderson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822971755

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Pittsburgh Surveyed by Maurine Weiner Greenwald,Margo J. Anderson Pdf

From 1909-1914 the Pittsburgh Survey brought together statisticans, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, and city planners to study the effects of industrialization on the city of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Surveyed examines the accuracy and the impact of the influential Pittsburgh Survey, emphasizing its role in the social reform movement of the early twentieth century.

Author : John Hinshaw
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791489406

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Steel and Steelworkers by John Hinshaw Pdf

Breaks new ground in the study of an industry and region crucial to the history of American industrial capitalism.

Author : Aggregate
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822977896

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Governing by Design by Aggregate Pdf

Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves. In these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle for power and as a mediator of social currents. Power is defined through a variety of forms: modernization, obsolescence, technology, capital, ergonomics, biopolitics, and others. The chapters explore the diffusion of power through the establishment of norms and networks that frame human conduct, action, identity, and design. They follow design as it functions through the body, in the home, and at the state and international level. Overall, Aggregate views the intersection of architecture with the human need for what Foucault termed “governmentality”—societal rules, structures, repetition, and protocols—as a way to provide security and tame risk. Here, the conjunction of power and the power of design reinforces governmentality and infuses a sense of social permanence despite the exceedingly fluid nature of societies and the disintegration of cultural memory in the modern era.

Author : Margaret Byington
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822988830

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Homestead by Margaret Byington Pdf

First published in 1910 in the classic Pittsburgh Survey, this pioneering work of American social history, reproduced in its entirety, describes daily life in a community that was dominated economically and physically by the giant Homestead Works of the United States Steel Corporation. The town of Homestead, just across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh, developed as a completely separate city—a true mill town settled by newer immigrants and shaped in its attitudes by the infamous Homestead Strike of 1892, which significantly set back unionization efforts in the steel industry. Homestead:The Households of a Mill Town not only focuses on the plight of the American steel worker in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it also explores the domestic and community aspects of life in that time period.

Author : Ángela Vergara
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822988311

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Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile by Ángela Vergara Pdf

In Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile, Ángela Vergara narrates the story of how industrial and mine workers, peasants and day laborers, as well as blue-collar and white-collar employees earned a living through periods of economic, political, and social instability in twentieth-century Chile. The Great Depression transformed how Chileans viewed work and welfare rights and how they related to public institutions. Influenced by global and regional debates, the state put modern agencies in place to count and assist the poor and expand their social and economic rights. Weaving together bottom-up and transnational approaches, Vergara underscores the limits of these policies and demonstrates how the benefits and protections of wage labor became central to people’s lives and culture, and how global economic recessions, political oppression, and abusive employers threatened their working-class culture. Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile contributes to understanding the profound inequality that permeates Chilean history through a detailed analysis of the relationship between welfare professionals and the unemployed, the interpretation of labor laws, and employers’ everyday attitudes.

Author : Fernando Lara,Ana Paula Koury
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822988779

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Street Matters by Fernando Lara,Ana Paula Koury Pdf

Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. It begins with the 2013 demonstrations that ostensibly began over public transportation fare increases but quickly grew to address larger questions of inequality. This inequality is physically manifested across Brazil, most visibly in its sprawling urban favelas. The authors propose an understanding of the social and spatial dynamics at play that is based on property, labor, and security. They stitch together the history of plans for urban space with the popular protests that Brazilians organized to fight for property and land. They embed the history of civil society within the history of urban planning and its institutionalization to show how urban and regional planning played a key role in the management of the social conflicts surrounding land ownership. If urban and regional planning at times benefited the expansion of civil rights, it also often worked on behalf of class exploitation, deepening spatial inequalities and conflicts embedded in different city spaces.

Author : Albert M. Tannler,Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0978828496

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Pittsburgh Architecture in the Twentieth Century by Albert M. Tannler,Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Pdf

Author : Andra Chastain,Timothy Lorek
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822987321

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Itineraries of Expertise by Andra Chastain,Timothy Lorek Pdf

Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post–World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War.

Author : Marlene Laruelle
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986348

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Entangled Far Rights by Marlene Laruelle Pdf

Since the rise of Putin, many have puzzled by the strange affinity of the far right in the West for today's authoritarian Russia. Entangled Far Rights explores the deep roots of this phenomena and reveals it to be a running thread through the entire history of the long 20th century and present regardless of the changing political character of Russia's regimes.

Author : Michelle Dion
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822973638

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Workers and Welfare by Michelle Dion Pdf

After the revolutionary period of 1910-1920, Mexico developed a number of social protection programs to support workers in public and private sectors and to establish safeguards for the poor and the aged. These included pensions, healthcare, and worker's compensation. The new welfare programs were the product of a complex interrelationship of corporate, labor, and political actors. In this unique dynamic, cross-class coalitions maintained both an authoritarian regime and social protection system for some seventy years, despite the ebb and flow of political and economic tides. By focusing on organized labor, and its powerful role in effecting institutional change, Workers and Welfare chronicles the development and evolution of Mexican social insurance institutions in the twentieth century. Beginning with the antecedents of social insurance and the adoption of pension programs for central government workers in 1925, Dion's analysis shows how the labor movement, up until the 1990s, was instrumental in expanding welfare programs, but has since become largely ineffective. Despite stepped-up efforts, labor has seen the retrenchment of many benefits. Meanwhile, Dion cites the debt crisis, neoliberal reform, and resulting changes in the labor market as all contributing to a rise in poverty. Today, Mexican welfare programs emphasize poverty alleviation, in a marked shift away from social insurance benefits for the working class.

Author : Roy Lubove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1969-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0075546795

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Twentieth Century Pittsburgh by Roy Lubove Pdf

Author : John C. Swanson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822981992

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Tangible Belonging by John C. Swanson Pdf

Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership tried to organize German-speaking villagers, Hungary tried to integrate (and later expel) them, and Germany courted them. The German speakers themselves, however, kept negotiating and renegotiating their own idiosyncratic sense of what it meant to be German. John C. Swanson’s work looks deeply into the enduring sense of tangible belonging that characterized Germanness from the perspective of rural dwellers, as well as the broader phenomenon of “minority making” in twentieth-century Europe. The chapters reveal the experiences of Hungarian Germans through the First World War and the subsequent dissolution of Austria-Hungary; the treatment of the German minority in the newly independent Hungarian Kingdom; the rise of the racial Volksdeutsche movement and Nazi influence before and during the Second World War; the immediate aftermath of the war and the expulsions; the suppression of German identity in Hungary during the Cold War; and the fall of Communism and reinstatement of minority rights in 1993. Throughout, Swanson offers colorful oral histories from residents of the rural Swabian villages to supplement his extensive archival research. As he shows, the definition of being a German in Hungary varies over time and according to individual interpretation, and does not delineate a single national identity. What it meant to be German was continually in flux. In Swanson’s broader perspective, defining German identity is ultimately a complex act of cognition reinforced by the tangible environment of objects, activities, and beings. As such, it endures in individual and collective mentalities despite the vicissitudes of time, history, language, and politics.

Author : Roy Lubove
Publisher : Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0822955660

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Twentieth-century Pittsburgh: The post-steel era by Roy Lubove Pdf

Pittsburgh's Renaissance II, which began in 1977 with the encouragement of Mayor Richard Caliguiri, saw the rise of splendid skyscrapers in the Golden Triangle, a new commitment to neighborhood revitalization, and an emphasis on culture and art.