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Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on September 29, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):275-277; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp049
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Talking Steel Towns: The Men and Women of America’s Steel Valley

Donna M. DeBlasio

Youngstown State University

TALKING STEEL TOWNS: THE MEN AND WOMEN OF AMERICA’S STEEL VALLEY. By Ellie Wymard. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007. 96 pp. Hardbound, $29.95; Softbound, $16.95.

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The demise of the American steel industry has had a devastating effect on the towns the giant factories once called home. As bulldozers mow down the distinctive blast furnaces that once silhouetted the skyline, the memories are about all we have of a once common way of life. In Talking Steel Towns: The Men and Women of America’s Steel Valley, Ellie Wymard tries to capture, through oral histories, what life and work in steel towns was like for ordinary men and women. Wymard focuses on the towns . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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