Rose, James D. Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
This well researched study includes an extended discussion of Duquesne's response to the Great Depression and its transformation from a company town into a pro-New Deal "union town" by the end of the 1930s.
Referenced in:
Pennsylvania and the Great Depression
Labor's Struggle to Organize
Duquesne Steel Works [Great Depression]