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

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Youngstown, Ohio, and the surrounding Mahoning Valley supplied the iron that helped develop into the USA 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. Positioned halfway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, the Mahoning Valley became a major supplier of pig iron to The united states’s biggest industrial regions. For much of the nineteenth century, out of doors consumers relied on the Valley’s pig iron, but this reliance nurtured a reluctance on the a 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 take action. Desperate to find new markets, some Youngstown iron manufacturers in the end looked toward steel and endured a rapid, but successful, industrial transformation that temporarily kept their old enterprises afloat in a impulsively evolving industry. Richly illustrated with rare photographs of Mahoning Valley ironmasters, mills, furnaces, and workers, Iron Valley sheds light on a in the past underrepresented and vital region that built industrial The united states.


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