What it Was Like to WORK in a PENNSYLVANIA STEEL MILL in the 1970s
From Pittsburgh's Monongahela Valley to Bethlehem Steel in Pennsylvania's coal country, these mills produced one-third of America's steel while creating entire ecosystems of Polish, Slovak, Italian, and Ukrainian communities. Then watch as the 1974 Consent Decree shattered racial segregation in the workplace, women broke through gender barriers, and catastrophic floods and foreign competition brought it all crashing down. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction: Walking Through the Gates 02:11 The Geography of Fire and Steel 05:14 Inside the Inferno: The Work Itself 14:10 The Brotherhood of the Blast Furnace 18:05 The Golden Wages and What They Bought 22:07 The Color Line Inside the Mill 27:59 Women of Steel: Breaking the Gender Barrier 32:23 The Union and the Boardroom: A Failure of Vision 38:50 Catastrophe: The Johnstown Flood of 1977 41:34 The Environmental Reckoning 44:56 The Steel Towns and Their Souls 48:01 The Culture Surrounding the Furnaces 54:52 The Shadows Gathering at Decade's End 01:01:41 What the Flames Meant
The Collapse of Norwood, OH: The Factory That Built Half of America's Cars Was Bulldozed in 90 Days
100 Most Dangerous Machines of the Industrial Age (1900–1950)
Solanas was wrong. Men do experience love and men experience love like this.
It Averaged One Steelworker Dead Every Two Days — The Killing Floor Of Allegheny County (1906-1907)
Making Steel in the U.S. Part 9: Red-Hot Steel Slabs and the Basic Oxygen Furnace
The Sugar Factory Workers Killed by the Dust They Worked In Every Day
The Fall of Homestead: The Steel Mill That Won WWII Was Scrapped For a Parking Lot
How Workers Carved the Pennsylvania Railroad Through the Allegheny Mountains Before Dynamite
Making Steel in the U.S. Part 8: Turning Coal Into Coke
How a Walmart Greeter Identified a Soviet Spy (Cold War Story)
The 175-Ton Steel Beast: 2,900 Degrees of Death Suspended Above the Mill Floor
The Last Coal Miner Who Worked Beside West Virginia's Giants — What He Said Before They Sealed It
Why Bethlehem Steel Was a Nightmare For Workers
The Massive Bethlehem Machine So Powerful That Treaties Tried to Limit It (1905)
30 Things Every American Home Had in the 1970s (That Completely Disappeared)
How Westinghouse Lost its Way
Inside the Westinghouse Electric Plant: How America’s Power Was Built Here
Severstal Dearborn Mill Tour
The Fatal Alfred Herbert Scandal: How the World's Biggest Machine Tool Empire Collapsed
