@book{208,
  keywords = {trade unions, Steel Strike of 1919, steel industry, Black Americans},
  author = {William Attaway},
  title = {Blood on the Forge},
  abstract = {Follows the Moss trio—Chinatown, Melody, and Big Mat—three black half-brothers who leave Kentucky for the Monongahela River Valley for promised factory jobs. The Mosses endure bleak working conditions and end up on opposition sides of the 1919 Steel Strike. },
  year = {1941},
  pages = {264 p.},
  publisher = {Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.},
  address = {New York},
  note = {Written as an epic and Black response to John Steinbeck’s <em>The Grapes of Wrath</em> (1939).},
  language = {English},
}