Lost Steel Plants Of The Monongahela River Valley

Author : Robert S. Dorsett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143965445X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Steel Plants of the Monongahela River Valley written by Robert S. Dorsett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River is named after the Lenape Indian word Menaonkihela, meaning “where banks cave and erode.” The name is fitting: for over a century, these riverbanks were lined with steel plants and railroads that have now “caved and eroded” away. By the 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the world’s largest manufacturer of iron, steel rails, and coke. However, in the 1970s, cheap foreign steel flooded the market. Following the 1981–1982 recession, the plants laid off 153,000 workers. The year 1985 saw the beginning of demolition; by 1990, seven of nine major steel plants had shut down. Duquesne, Homestead, Jones & Laughlin, and Eliza Furnace are gone; only the Edgar Thomson plant remains as a producer of steel. The industry could be said to have built and nearly destroyed the region both economically and environmentally. While these steel plants are lost today, the legacy of their workers is not forgotten.

Author : Robert S. Dorsett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146713466X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Steel Plants of the Monongahela River Valley written by Robert S. Dorsett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pittsburgh's Monongahela River is named after the Lenape Indian word Menaonkihela, meaning "where banks cave and erode." The name is fitting: for over a century, these riverbanks were lined with steel plants and railroads that have now "caved and eroded" away. By the 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the world's largest manufacturer of iron, steel rails, and coke. However, in the 1970s, cheap foreign steel flooded the market. Following the 1981-1982 recession, the plants laid off 153,000 workers. The year 1985 saw the beginning of demolition; by 1990, seven of nine major steel plants had shut down. Duquesne, Homestead, Jones & Laughlin, and Eliza Furnace are gone; only the Edgar Thomson plant remains as a producer of steel. The industry could be said to have built and nearly destroyed the region both economically and environmentally. While these steel plants are lost today, the legacy of their workers is not forgotten.

Author : William J. Miller Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149306844X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steel City written by William J. Miller Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steel City is the story of the 1890s golden age of Pittsburgh when its technological innovations and wealth creation made it the Silicon Valley of its day. Pittsburgh was first in steel, food processing, and electricity, and the leaders of those industries—Carnegie, Frick, Heinz, and Westinghouse—are names we still know today. Amid this fevered atmosphere Jamie Dalton, a recent Yale graduate and son of a corporate lawyer, must decide whether to accede to his father’s wishes and pursue a career in law or the steel business, or follow his own instincts and become a newspaperman. The greatest natural disaster of the 19th century, the Johnstown Flood, confirms his choice to be a journalist, and Jamie goes on to cover Pittsburgh’s business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern European anarchist. Jamie struggles with balancing the access he has to Pittsburgh’s business elite while maintaining the objectivity to tell the hard truths about those same people. Ultimately, he must thwart a terrorist plot that could disrupt the massive corporate merger that would restructure the nation’s largest industry: steel.

Author : Alice J. Crosetto
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143967776X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cookie Table written by Alice J. Crosetto and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All you need is love and cookies. Everyone loves cookies, but the people of the Steel Valley take this love to another level. Nowhere else in America will you behold hundreds--or even thousands--of cookies piled high for events of all kinds. This is the regionally famous cookie table. But how did this tradition start? Why do residents of the Pittsburgh and Youngstown areas always create them not just for weddings but for birthdays, graduations, fundraisers, community events, and so much more? How did this once quaint local custom become a social media phenomenon? How are the cookies made, and how is a cookie table organized? Join author and cookie table enthusiast Alice Crosetto on a delectable journey through this beloved Steel Valley tradition.

Author : Carla Mooney
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1680797263
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Steel Industry written by Carla Mooney and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some commodities command massive economic, social, and political influence. This title examines the business around steel, the metal that supports many of the world's buildings and structures. It explores the origins of steel, key technological advances, and the ways in which the industry continues to innovate today. Features include essential facts, a glossary, selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : James Howard Bridge
Publisher : New York : Aldine Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company written by James Howard Bridge and published by New York : Aldine Book Company. This book was released on 1903 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book User Taxes for the Inland Waterways of the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. General Subcommittee on Labor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book Impact of Imports on American Industry and Employment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. General Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House Education and Labor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impact of Imports on American Industry and Employment, Hearings Before the General Subcommittee on Labor... written by United States. Congress. House Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: