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Iron Valley: The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, 1802–1913 (2017)

Trillium, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 2017
Language: English

ISBN: 9780814213216

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: xiii + 322; illustrations, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, notes, index

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Iron and iron industry Steel and steel industry 19th century United States Ohio (U.S.) Youngstown, OH Mahoning River Valley

Youngstown, Ohio, and the surrounding Mahoning Valley supplied the iron that helped transform the United States into an industrial powerhouse in the nineteenth century. The story of the Mahoning Valley's unorthodox rise from mid-scale iron producer to twentieth-century "Steel Valley" is a tale of innovation, stagnation, and, above all, extreme change. Located halfway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, the Mahoning Valley became a major supplier of pig iron to America's biggest industrial regions. 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...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. 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 afloat in a rapidly evolving industry...Iron Valley sheds light on a previously underrepresented and vital region that built industrial America. (Publisher)

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Review Virginia P. Dawson (2016) Review of "Iron Valley: The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, 1802–1913". IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 69-70). unapi

Review Richard Oestreicher (Spring 2018) Review of "Iron Valley: The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, 1802–1913". Business History Review (pp. 215-216). unapi

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