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What forces transformed a community in which industrial workers and other citizens exercised a real measure of power over their lives into a metropolis whose inhabitants were utterly dependent on Big Steel? How did a city that fervidly embraced the labor struggle of 1877 turn into the city which so fiercely repudiated the labor struggle of 1919?
The Remaking of Pittsburgh is the history of this transformation. The cultural dimensions of industrialization come to life as Couvares calls upon labor history, urban history, and the history of popular culture to depict the demise of the "craftsman's empire" and the birth of a cosmopolitan bourgeois society. The book explores the impact of immigration on the shaping of modern Pittsburgh and the emergence of mass culture within the community. In the midst of these processes of transformation, the giant steel corporations were continually reshaping the life of the city.
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Map of Pittsburgh
Introduction
Chapter 1. 1877
Chapter 2. The Craftsmen's Empire
Chapter 3. Plebian Culture
Chapter 4. Sober Citizens
Chapter 5. Politicians and Professionals
Chapter 6. Steel City
Chapter 7. Leisure Class, Ruling Class
Chapter 8. The Triumph of Commerce
Chapter 9. Epilogue: 1919 and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index