Family in a Typical Mill Town
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A 1909 paper by Margaret F. Byington describing family life in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a steel-mill town near Pittsburgh, based on a six-month cost-of-living investigation. It examines how a single dominant industry shapes family structure: men as sole breadwinners, women at home, and sons entering the mill. It also covers wages, household budgets, housing, overcrowding among Slavic immigrant lodgers, long shifts, and the lack of amusements and labor organization. It concludes that low wages and long hours keep families from realizing their ideals.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1909
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 14
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