A TOWN WITHOUT STEEL; ENVISIONING HOMESTEAD.

Modell, Judith [Judith Modell Schachter]. Charlee Brodsky (photographer).

ISBN 10: 0822956764 / ISBN 13: 9780822956761

Published by Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998., 1998

About this Item

INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY PHOTOGRAPHER CHARLEE BRODSKY. xxvi, 341, [1] pages, Paperback; H 23.75cm x L 17.5cm. Stiff paper covers lightly rubbed. Binding remains fairly crisp. Brodsky's four-line ink inscription (dated 2.6.02) is at the half-title page's top right corner. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. A very good+ copy. With Preface, b/w photographs and illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Publisher's description: "In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of household and work and place in this world. The book details the modifications and revisions of domestic strategies in a public crisis. In some ways unique, and in some ways typical of American industrial towns, the plight of Homestead sheds light on social, cultural, and political developments of the late twentieth century. In this anthropological and photographic account of a town facing the crisis of deindustrialization, A TOWN WITHOUT STEEL focuses on families. Reminiscent of Margaret Byington and Lewis Hine's approach in Homestead, Charlee Brodsky's photographs document the visual dimension of change in Homestead. The mill that dominated the landscape transformed to a vast, empty lot; a crowded commercial street turns into a ghost town; and an abundance of well-kept homes become an abandoned street of houses for sale. The individual narratives and family snapshots, Modell's interpretations, and Brodsky's photographs all evoke the tragedy and the resilience of a town whose primary source of self-identification no longer exists." ISBN 0822956764.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A TOWN WITHOUT STEEL; ENVISIONING HOMESTEAD.
• Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822956764
• ISBN 13: 9780822956761
• Binding: Soft cover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana-Regional

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Synopsis

In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of household and work and place in this world. The book details the modifications and revisions of domestic strategies in a public crisis. In some ways unique, and in some ways typical of American industrial towns, the plight of Homestead sheds light on social, cultural, and political developments of the late twentieth century. In this anthropological and photographic account of a town facing the crisis of deindustrialization, A Town Without Steel focuses on families. Reminiscent of Margaret Byington and Lewis Hine\u2019s approach in Homestead, Charlee Brodsky\u2019s photographs document the visual dimension of change in Homestead. The mill that dominated the landscape transformed to a vast, empty lot; a crowded commercial street turns into a ghost town; and an abundance of well-kept homes become an abandoned street of houses for sale. The individual narratives and family snapshots, Modell\u2019s interpretations, and Brodsky\u2019s photographs all evoke the tragedy and the resilience of a town whose primary source of self-identification no longer exists.

About the Author

Judith Modell is professor of anthropology, history, and art at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Ruth Benedict and Kinship with Strangers, as well as a number of theoretical and methodological articles.