Steelton: Immigration and Industrialization, 1870–1940

by John Bodnar

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A study of the immigrants who flocked to this Central Pennsylvania steel town in the late nineteenth century in search of employment. Comprised primarily of Southern blacks and Eastern European immigrants, they formed the lower class of this town. Analyzes the social structure and dominance of the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant elite.
  • ISBN10 0822960931
  • ISBN13 9780822960935
  • Publish Date 15 November 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 240
  • Language English