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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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The Battle for Homestead | |
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Homestead and the American Republic in the Gilded Age | |
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6 July 1892: "A Carnival of Revenge" | |
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Captains of Steel, Captains of Culture | |
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The "Mechanical Habit of Mind" | |
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Problems in Iron Production in the Mid 1800s | |
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The Bessemer Process | |
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Captains of Steel | |
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Abram S. Hewitt and the Promise of the Open Hearth | |
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Alexander Holley, Bessemer Engineering, and the Origins of Scientific Management | |
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Labor Reform in Pittsburgh, 1867-1881: From "Amalgamation" to the Brink of Collapse | |
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Indicting and Embracing the Civilization of the Nineteenth Century | |
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Roots of Labor Reform and Machine Politics | |
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Custom Confronts Capital: The Lockout of 1874-1875 | |
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Toward a Wider Amalgamation: The Knights of Labor | |
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Mill Owners and Machine Politicians on the Offensive | |
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Miners Amalgamate in "Late Afternoon" | |
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"Tried and Found Faithful": Homestead Defies the Assault | |
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Assaults on Labor | |
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The Homestead Glassworks and the Knights of Labor | |
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The Decision to Build a Steel Mill | |
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William Clark and the First Homestead Steelworkers | |
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The Homestead Strike of 1882 | |
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"Defense, Not Defiance": Defeat in the City and the State | |
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Labor in Greater Pittsburgh During the 1880s | |
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A Tale of Two Cities: Pittsburgh and Homestead | |
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Republican Recruits: East Europeans in Homestead | |
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Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron and Philanthropist | |
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The Homestead Lockout of 1889: The Making of a "Workers' Republic" | |
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The Life and Times of "Beeswax" Taylor: Exemplary Paradoxes of American Labor | |
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1892 and Beyond: Legacies of Homestead | |
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Captains of Business, Captains of Politics | |
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1892: The Stakes for Labor | |
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Silenced Minorities | |
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Winners and Losers | |
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Appendices | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |