Steel: The Story of Pittsburgh's Iron and Steel Industry, 1852 1902
Released: Dec 05, 2016
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Format: Hardcover, 194 pages
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Description:
Steel portrays the growth of the iron and steel industry in smoke-filled Pittsburgh during the nineteenth century. This fast-paced saga tells the story of millionaire steel titans Andrew Carnegie, Ben Franklin Jones, Henry Clay Frick, Henry Phipps and Charles Schwab strong-willed men who often plotted and schemed against each other, yet united against their underpaid and undervalued pro-union immigrant workforce. The juxtaposition of the haves and the have-nots produced bloody battles that exploded throughout Western Pennsylvania s plants, mines and railroad yards."
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