TY - SER
KW - trade unions
KW - Steel Strike of 1919
KW - steel industry
KW - Black Americans
AU - William Attaway
AB - 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. 
C1 - 1919
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Washington County; Donora; Westmoreland County; Monessen
C4 - Literary; Black; Labor
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Written as an epic and Black response to John Steinbeck’s <em>The Grapes of Wrath</em> (1939).
N2 - 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. 
PB - Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
PP - New York
PY - 1941
RN - William Attaway (1911-86), a Mississippi-born African American, followed a darker, more violent, and naturalist style like Emile Zola’s <em>Germinal</em>. Attaway later wrote for radio, television, and Hollywood.
EP - 264 p.
TI - Blood on the Forge
ER -