Description: This chronicle of Homestead, Pennsylvania, is labor and business history with the power of Theodore Dreiser. Homestead was a town made by steel, and its history is that of a mighty corporation, a bloody strike, and a bloodless but very real civic death in 1986, when the last plant closed. Photos. rint.
Review Quotes: "The Homestead Strike of 1892 is as important an event as any we learn in school.... Bill Serrin, our best labor chronicler, has not only re-created this epochal event but has offered us a portrait of a classical industrial town, its birth and dying. It is, in microcosm, the story of America yesterday and today.... A truly important book."-- Studs Terkel
"[Serrin writes] with a clarity and narrative drive that even many of our current bestselling business books lack.... This book should be read not only on Wall Street, but in the dwindling number of factory towns that still survive."-- Washington Post