Steeples and Stacks Religion and Steel Crisis in Youngstown, Ohio

Name: Steeples and Stacks Religion and Steel Crisis in Youngstown, Ohio
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ISBN: 9780521101264

ISBN-10: 0521101263

ISBN-13: 9780521101264

Edition: 2009

Authors: Thomas G. Fuechtmann

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Steeples and Stacks is an examination of the religion-based community group that formed in Youngstown, Ohio in 1977 in opposition to the proposed shutdown of a portion of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube's steel works, one of the most dramatic of the plant closings that have come to symbolize American deindustrialization. Church leaders and steel workers banded together to form a powerful ecumenical political coalition, established links with Washington lobbyists, and proposed to buy the plant and run it as a community industry. Though the proposal ultimately failed, the story of the coalition illuminates the growing interaction of religious and public affairs in American life and provides an…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034



Introduction



Steeltown



The industry



Shutdown



Coping with Crisis: Community Response to the Shutdown



Religion and Urban Economic Crisis



Launching a Movement



The Plan



Negotiations



Ending, Learning, Beginning Anew



Epilogue


Notes


References


Index