@book{216, keywords = {Scots-Irish Americans, labor strikes, immigrants, World War I, trade unions, Irish Americans, World War II, Panic of 1873, capitalists, service industry, Czechoslovak Americans, Johnstown Flood of 1889, Scottish Americans, iron industry, steel industry}, author = {Marcia Davenport}, title = {The Valley of Decision}, abstract = {Chronicles four generations of the Scott family—owners and operators of a competitive iron and steel company—from the economic panic of 1873 through the rise of American industry and trade unionism, waves of immigration, class conflict, natural disasters, and two World Wars. Mary Rafferty, the family's long-serving and trusted Irish maid, is a central character.}, year = {1942}, pages = {640 p.}, publisher = {Charles Scribner's Sons}, address = {New York}, note = {This novel was a national bestseller. North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.}, language = {English}, }