ABOUT THIS BOOK

Homestead, first published in 1910 as one volume in the classic Pittsburgh Survey, describes daily life in a community that was dominated economically and physically by the giant Homestead Works of the United States Steel Corporation. 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.

REVIEWS

“This book . . . was a classic in its own day, and the passage of time has not decreased its varied utility. Researchers can use it as a primary source. Teachers can find in it material for presentation in the classroom. Undergraduate students can recognize and comprehend its insights into thise phase of the nation's past.”
--Pennsylvania History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Homestead Revisited

P. Hays, Samuel

Editor's Foreword

PART I
THE MILL AND THE TOWN

Chapter I.
Homestead and the Great Strike

Chapter II.
The Make-up of the Town

PART II
THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING HOUSEHOLDS

Chapter III.
Work, Wages, and the Cost of Living

Chapter IV.
Rent in the Household Budget

Chapter V.
Table and Dinner Pail

Chapter VI.
Other Expenditures: The Budget as a Whole

Chapter VII.
Of Human Relationships

Chapter VIII.
The Children of Homestead

PART III
THE SLAV AS A HOMESTEADER

Chapter IX.
The Slavs

Chapter X.
Life at $1.65 a Day

Chapter XI.
Family Life of the Slavs

Chapter XII.
The Slav Organized

PART IV
THE MILL AND THE HOUSEHOLD

Chapter XIII.
The Mill and the Household

APPENDICES

I.
Methods of Budget Study

II.
Tables giving general description and average weekly expenditure of each of the 90 budget families

III.
Employees in Homestead Plant of the United States Steel Corporation classified according to skill, citizenship, conjugal condition, etc., Mar. 1, 1907

IV.
Classification and Earnings of Employees in Three Representative Steel Plants in the Pittsburgh District

V.
An Act to Enable Borough Councils to Establish Boards of Health. State of Pennsylvania. 1893

VI.
Report of the Board of Health of the Borough of Homestead for the year ending December 31, 1908

VII.
Record of Casualties on Unprotected Grade Crossings, Homestead, 1905–1907

VIII.
Seven-Day Labor

IX.
Cost of Living in Pittsburgh

X.
Ratings on Men Employed in Iron and Steel Industry, Prudential Insurance Company of America

XI.
Carnegie Relief Fund

XII.
Accident Relief Plan of the United States Steel Corporation

XIII.
The Carnegie Library, Homestead

W. F. Stevens,

XIV.
Slavic Organizations in Homestead

XV.
Population of Homestead and Munhall

INDEX

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