John P. Hoerr papers, 1955-1989.

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John P. Hoerr papers, 1955-1989.

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The John P. Hoerr Papers consist of research materials for his book, And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry (1988). The collection includes newspaper clippings, speeches, reports, and over forty interviews with United Steelworkers of America (USWA) members.

12 cubic feet.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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United Steelworkers of America

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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...

Hoerr, John P. 1930-

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John P. Hoerr was the author of We Can't Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard (1997), an account of the movement to establish the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, led by Kris Rondeau. From the description of Papers, 1988-1996 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 410947290 John P. Hoerr was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1930. Hoerr witnessed both post-Depression conditions and post-war prosperity in the mill town of McKeesport....