TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - labor strikes KW - immigrants KW - trade unions KW - Polish Americans KW - Slavic Americans KW - Austrian Americans KW - Westinghouse Electric Corporation KW - steel industry KW - Protestants AU - Victor Francis White AB - Peter Domanig, a 17-year-old Austrian immigrant after World War I, leaves his foster father and the comforts of 1920s suburban New York to earn a power position in Pittsburgh’s steel industry. Time writes, “From [Pittsburgh] on, his progress reads like a guided tour of the steel industry from the slag up, conducted by a man who knows his subject and loves to talk shop.” BT - Peter Domanig series, 2/4 C1 - 1920s C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Oakland; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Pittsburgh; St. Paul Cathedral; Syria Mosque; Downtown; Duquesne Club; Esplen; Lawrenceville; C4 - Labor; Immigrant; Bildungsroman CY - Indianapolis LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - Carnegie Mellon University is referred to as Carnegie Technical Institute, as it was then known. N2 - Peter Domanig, a 17-year-old Austrian immigrant after World War I, leaves his foster father and the comforts of 1920s suburban New York to earn a power position in Pittsburgh’s steel industry. Time writes, “From [Pittsburgh] on, his progress reads like a guided tour of the steel industry from the slag up, conducted by a man who knows his subject and loves to talk shop.” PB - Bobbs-Merrill PP - Indianapolis PY - 1954 RN - Victor Francis White (1902-81), born in Vienna, Austria, immigrated at 17 to America. He earned degrees at Rutgers, Yale, and the Sorbonne, taught French and wrote for Life and Time. He died in Taos, New Mexico. EP - 476 p. T2 - Peter Domanig series, 2/4 TI - Peter Domanig in America: Steel ER -