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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2010
      September 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511628023
      9780521334815
      9780521101264
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628023
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 320 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Religion and American Public Life
      Subjects:
      History, Colonial American History, Religion, Religion: General Interest, Twentieth Century American History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Religion and American Public Life
    Subjects:
    History, Colonial American History, Religion, Religion: General Interest, Twentieth Century American History
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    Steeples and Stacks is a study of the religion-based community group that formed in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1977 in response to the proposed shutdown of a portion of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube's steelworks. The closing was one of the most dramatic of the plant closings that have come to symbolise American deindustrialisation. Church leaders and steelworkers joined together in Youngstown to form a powerful ecumenical political coalition, establishing links with Washington lobbyists and proposing eventually to buy the plant and run it as a community industry. Though the proposal ultimately failed, the story of the coalition provides an illuminating view of the growing interaction between religious and public affairs in American life. The book also provides an original analysis of the dynamics of intergovernmental, corporate and community relations at the local level. The author, who became involved in the coalition as a participant-observer, focuses on the pivotal role of religious leaders that distinguished the Youngstown case from so many other plant closings across the nation.

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    "Fuechtmann's book is a well-researched and very useful case study of an unusual response to what has become, more and more, a common problem in the industrial United States." Paul F. Clark, The Journal of American History

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