TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Edgar Thomson Works
KW - Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)
KW - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
KW - trade unions
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Great Depression, The
KW - Steel Strike of 1919
KW - Bessemer process
KW - American Federation of Labor (AFL)
KW - Congress of Industrial Organizations
KW - Slovak Americans
KW - Carpatho-Rusyn Americans
KW - Byzantine Catholics
KW - Carnegie Steel Company
KW - Adalbert Kazincy (1871-1947)
KW - Pittsburgh Catholic Charities
KW - John Francis Regis Canevin (1853-1927)
KW - Westinghouse Electric Corporation
KW - Pinkerton Detective National Agency
KW - United Steelworkers
KW - U. S. Steel Corporation
KW - steel industry
KW - steel mills
KW - Homestead Steel Strike of 1892
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
AU - Thomas Bell
AB - A semi-autobiographical family saga of three generations of an immigrant Slovak and Rusyn family—the Dobrejcaks—from 1881 to 1937 in the steel mills of Braddock and Homestead.
C1 - 1881-1937
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Turtle Creek (tributary); Pittsburgh; Downtown; South Side; Squirrel Hill; Carnegie Mellon University; Braddock; Monongahela Cemetery; Carnegie Free Library of Braddock
C4 - Literary; Immigrant; Labor; Historical
CY - Boston
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Carnegie Mellon University is Carnegie Technical Institute; Kennywood Park is Kenny's Grove.

The novel arguably became the most memorable Pittsburgh Novel after 1976, when Professor David Demarest of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Press reissued this long out-of-print working-class novel.
N2 - A semi-autobiographical family saga of three generations of an immigrant Slovak and Rusyn family—the Dobrejcaks—from 1881 to 1937 in the steel mills of Braddock and Homestead.
PB - Little, Brown, & Company
PP - Boston
PY - 1941
RN - Thomas Bell (1903-61) was born and raised Adalbert Thomas Belejcak in Braddock, Allegheny County to immigrant parents. His father was a steelworker and bartender. At 15, Bell went to work in the mills and then became an electrician by trade. In 1922, Bell left Braddock for a brief stint as a merchant seaman, then settled in New York for a career in writing. He completed five novels, some adapted for Broadway and Hollywood, and a memoir about his struggle with cancer. He died in California and <em>In the Midst of Life</em> (1961) was published posthumously.
EP - 413 p.
TI - Out of This Furnace
ER -