Point of Pittsburgh (book)

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name = The Point of Pittsburgh: Production and Struggle at the Forks of the Ohio
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author = Charles McCollester
cover_artist = Bill Yund
country = flag|USA
language = English
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subject = History of the United States
genre = Nonfiction
publisher = Battle of Homestead Foundation
release_date = September 1 2008
media_type = Print (paperback)
pages = 456
isbn = 978-0981889412
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"The Point of Pittsburgh: Production and Struggle at the Forks of the Ohio" is an American history book by Charles McCollester, a labor historian and activist, who argues that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was the key to the industrial development that made the United States a world power and how the struggle of the region’s people for democratic rights and a decent standard of living was central to the creation of the American middle class.

While many books document the role played by the industrialists Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, and Henry Clay Frick, McCollester tells a rarely told people's history of the Indians and the workers in Western Pennsylvania. McCollester describes those who first stood at the Forks of the Ohio, those who dug the coal, tended the furnaces, wrested the iron, steel, glass and aluminum from raw material, who built the boats, the bridges, the rail equipment and the generators, the skyscrapers, the highways, built the homes, and raised the families.

The book was published in 2008, the 250th anniversary of Pittsburgh's founding.

ee also

*A People's History of the United States

ources

"Books in Print". Bowker, 2008.

External links

* [http://www.pointofpittsburgh.com/index.html Book Website for "The Point of Pittsburgh"]