When Deborah Rudacille was a child growing up in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the .
When Deborah Rudacille was a child growing up in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough to comfortably support a family. But in the decades since, the decline of American manufacturing has put tens of thousands out of work and left the people of Dundalk pondering the broken promise of the American dream.
As the American economy seeks to restructure itself, Roots of Steel is a powerful, candid, and eye-opening reminder of the people who have been left behind
As the American economy seeks to restructure itself, Roots of Steel is a powerful, candid, and eye-opening reminder of the people who have been left behind. When Deborah Rudacille was a child in the working-class town of Dundalk.
As the American economy seeks to restructure itself, Roots of Steel is a powerful, candid, and eye-opening reminder of the people who have been left behind. When Deborah Rudacille was a child in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough to comfortably support a family. But the decline of American manufacturing in the decades since has put tens of thousands out of work and left the people of Dundalk pondering the broken promise of the American dream.
When Deborah Rudacille was a child growing up in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough to comfortably support a family
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She takes us from Sparrows Point’s nineteenth-century origins to its height in the twentieth century as one of the largest producers of steel in the world, providing the material that built America’s bridges, skyscrapers, and battleships.
As the American economy seeks to restructure itself, Roots of Steel is a powerful, candid, and eye-opening .
Deborah Rudacille teachers at UMBC and is an independent journalist and science writer. Her new book, Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town, was published by Pantheon in January 2010
Deborah Rudacille teachers at UMBC and is an independent journalist and science writer. Her new book, Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town, was published by Pantheon in January 2010. She also contributes to local and national publications, including USA Today, SEED, The Defenders Online, Baltimore Brew, and Urbanite. The New Mercury Reading Series is co-curated by Deborah Rudacille and John Barry.
The American mill town in Rudacille’s book is Dundalk, Maryland, developed as Bethlehem Steel’s company burg for its enormous Sparrows Point complex near Baltimore. Delivering a rust-belt story in outline, the author in substance recounts the tough conditions of steel-mill work, bargaining between the company and the union, and the racial and ethnic sociology of the workforce.
When Deborah Rudacille was a child growing up in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker .
When Deborah Rudacille was a child growing up in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough.
The daughter of a steelworker, Deborah Rudacille spoke at Red Emma's about her book "Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Milltown" giving us an intimate history of the rise and decline of a steel town and an industry.