Author: James J. DavisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368400258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Iron Puddler
Author: James J. DavisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368400258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It
Author: James John DavisPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465526307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Autobiography of the Davis, Secretary of Labor under presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Covers his youth and early work in the iron industry, his membership in the Loyal Order of Moose, and founding of the Mooseheart School.
The Iron Puddler
Author: James John DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Autobiography of the Davis, Secretary of Labor under presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Covers his youth and early work in the iron industry, his membership in the Loyal Order of Moose, and founding of the Mooseheart School.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It
Author: James J. DavisPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
"The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It" by James J. Davis James John Davis was a Welsh-born American businessman, author, and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. He was also known by the nicknames "Iron Puddler" and "Puddler Jim." In this book, Davis shares his life story so readers can learn about his dedicated career from a personal perspective.
Life in the Iron Mills
Author: Rebecca Harding DavisPublisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1681950871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Life in the Iron Hell “In the neighboring furnace-buildings lay great heaps of the refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run. Korl we call it here: a light, porous substance, of a delicate, waxen, flesh-colored tinge. Out of the blocks of this korl, Wolfe, in his off-hours from the furnace, had a habit of chipping and moulding figures,—hideous, fantastic enough, but sometimes strangely beautiful: even the mill-men saw that, while they jeered at him. It was a curious fancy in the man, almost a passion.” - Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills Life in the Iron Mills is one of the first American novels that depicts the precarious state of the impoverished working class. ‘Molly Wolfe’ is a member of this class working 12 hours a day, six days a week to earn a living. Because of his condition, he cannot develop his innate artistic talent. His cousin, Deborah tries to help him but the consequences are devastating. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
City of Steel
Author: Kenneth J. KobusPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442231351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Despite being geographically cut off from large trade centers and important natural resources, Pittsburgh transformed itself into the most formidable steel-making center in the world. Beginning in the 1870s, under the engineering genius of magnates such as Andrew Carnegie, steel-makers capitalized on western Pennsylvania’s rich supply of high-quality coal and powerful rivers to create an efficient industry unparalleled throughout history. In City of Steel, Ken Kobus explores the evolution of the steel industry to celebrate the innovation and technology that created and sustained Pittsburgh’s steel boom. Focusing on the Carnegie Steel Company’s success as leader of the region’s steel-makers, Kobus goes inside the science of steel-making to investigate the technological advancements that fueled the industry’s success. City of Steel showcases how through ingenuity and determination Pittsburgh’s steel-makers transformed western Pennsylvania and forever changed the face of American industry and business.
The Iron Manufacture of Great Britain
Author: William TruranMastering Iron
Author: Anne Kelly KnowlesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226448614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron producers began to match the scale and efficiency of the British iron industry. In Mastering Iron, Anne Kelly Knowles argues that the prolonged development of the US iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face. Pairing exhaustive manuscript research with analysis of a detailed geospatial database that she built of the industry, Knowles reconstructs the American iron industry in unprecedented depth, from locating hundreds of iron companies in their social and environmental contexts to explaining workplace culture and social relations between workers and managers. She demonstrates how ironworks in Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia struggled to replicate British technologies but, in the attempt, brought about changes in the American industry that set the stage for the subsequent age of steel. Richly illustrated with dozens of original maps and period art work, all in full color, Mastering Iron sheds new light on American ambitions and highlights the challenges a young nation faced as it grappled with its geographic conditions.
The Iron Manufacture of Great Britain Theoretically and Practically Considered
Author: William TruranThe Fall of the House of Labor
Author: David MontgomeryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521379823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia. Sustained class conflict between 1916 and 1922 reshaped governmental and business policies, but left labour largely unorganised and in retreat. The House of Labor, so arduously erected by working-class activists during the preceeding generation, did not collapse, but ossified, so that when labour activism was reinvigorated after 1933, the movement split in two. These developments are analysed here in ways which stress the links between migration, neighbourhood life, racial subjugation, business reform, the state, and the daily experience of work itself.