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Why did black migrants go to the Rust Belt, and why did they choose some cities over others?
The Great Migration, from the early 1900’s into the 1940’s, saw a dramatic shift of the American black population away from the South and towards northern cities. The industrial steel towns of the Rust Belt were prime destinations for these migrants, and the populations of the 4 cities in the chart above increased most dramatically…
Preliminary Mapping.
This map shows the various locations relevant to my life so far. I was born and grew up in Marietta G.A, but I moved to Forsyth County during middle school, and I still live there. I am now attending college in the University of North Georgia. This map shows the percentage increase or decrease of…
How did the Ethnicity and National Origin of Steelworkers effect their position and advancement opportunities?
Over the course of collecting and visualizing my data, the charts above emerged from the numbers of steelworkers collected by the U.S Census Bureau between 1900 and 1940. The results showed that the laborers who worked in the steel plants underwent a shift in their composition within this period. In 1900, a pattern had already…
How can I visualize the data I have collected?
My project goals began with looking at the steel industry in Pittsburgh and the steelworkers, but I chose to expand my research to other major steel towns, to get a good comparison and to have enough data to build a acceptable dataset. I collected the data for the amount of steelworkers and ethnic background of…
Why did population decline and keep declining in the City of Steel?
The story of population decline in Pittsburgh is on its face, simply due to the outsourcing of industry and steel jobs in the 80’s. In my previous blog post, I dug deeper and discovered that the decline was already occurring before the 1980’s, and the downsizing of U.S Steel1 and the shuttering of factories was…
Decline of steel, or something else? Why population declined in Pittsburgh.
As I discussed in my earlier post on the effect of deindustrialization in Pittsburgh, the city experienced dramatic population decline from the 1970s-1980s. This is clearly attributable to steel companies closing operations and offshoring jobs, with U.S Steel becoming more of an energy company by the mid 80s.1 But the wave of job loss only…
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Who were the workers of the City of Steel?
The growth of the iron and steel industry in Pittsburgh was portrayed and written about as a triumph of the “great man of history”, Andrew Carnegie, but no steel would have been made without the labor of the steel and ironworkers in Carnegie’s mills. My questions when analyzing the statistical data about the steel industry…
Still the City of Steel?: Pittsburg’s population decline in the 80s.
Why did Pittsburgh’s population decline sharply in the 1970s and 80s?Pittsburgh has a reputation as the city of steel, and steel-workers. This industry reached unprecedented heights in the city, and to fuel these mills and smelters, many workers were required.From 1810, until 1960, the population of Pittsburgh constantly increased from census to census.1 But a…