Rating: Not rated
Tags: Economic History, Lang:en
Summary
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. **