ROOTS OF STEEL(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　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.
　　In Roots of Steel, Rudacille combines personal narrative,
interviews with workers, and extensive research to capture the
character and history of this once-prosperous community. 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. Throughout, Rudacille dissects the
complicated racial, class, and gender politics that played out in
the mill and its neighboring towns, and details both the arduous
and dangerous work at the plant and the environmental cost of
industrial progress to the air and waterways of the Maryland
shore.
　　Powerful, candid, and eye-opening, Roots of Steel is a timely
reminder, as the American economy seeks to restructure itself, of
the people who inevitably have been left behind.
　　From the Hardcover edition.

　　Deborah Rudacille is a science writer and the
author of The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activisim, and
Transgender Rights and The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The
War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection. She lives in
Baltimore, Maryland.
　　From the Hardcover edition.

PATRIOTS
ROOTS
DIRT
6UNS
UNITY
LIBERTY
BOOM
SMOKE
JUSTICE
RECKONINO
LEBACIES
SCRA
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources
Index