Iron Valley: The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio's Mahoning Valley, 1802–1913 (Trillium Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814253768 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 483 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Richly illustrated with rare photographs of Mahoning Valley ironmasters, mills, furnaces, and workers, Iron Valley sheds light on a previously underrepresented and vital region that built industrial America.. For much of the nineteenth century, outside consumers relied on the Valley’s pig iron, but this reliance nurtured a reluctance on the part of Youngstown iron companies to diversify or expand their production.In Iron Valley: The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, 1802–1913, Clayton J. Ruminski argues that Youngstown-area iron manufacturers were content to let others in the industry innovate, and only modernized when market conditions forced them to do so. Youngstown, Ohio, and the surrounding Mahoning Valley supplied the iron that helped transform the United States into an industrial powerhouse in the nineteenth century. Desperate to find new markets, some Youngstown iron manufacturers eventually looked toward steel and endured a rapid, but successful, industrial transformation that temporarily kept their old enterprises afl
It provides the background needed to understand the subsequent demise of the Youngstown steel industry.” —Robert Gordon, Yale University. Since there is no comprehensive account of the Mahoning region’s iron industry, Iron Valley is a welcome addition to the history of this business. “The Mahoning story is a component of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of American iron- and steelmaking that needs to be told. The story told here contributes valuable source material for economic historians and historians of technology