| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Canada and the United States

John Hinshaw. Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh. (SUNY series in American Labor History.) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2002. Ppxvii, 348. Cloth $75.50, paper $25.95.

For an industry that employed over half a million workers, steel has been slighted by twentieth-century labor historians. This has begun to change with the recent publication of a number of books that explore the industry and its workers, and John Hinshaw contributes his own thoroughly researched and nuanced, though at times overly ambitious, study of twentieth-century Pittsburgh steelworkers. At the core of Hinshaw's account is how class, race, and corporate and political elites shaped the lives of steelworkers in the Pittsburgh region. "Pittsburgh possesses a history of crushing defeats, yet also the important saga of how workers in the 1930s, and for decades after, forced the owning class to concede enormous resources back to them" (p. 255). . . .

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