Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker

TitleSteel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker
Year of Publication1922
Publication TypeNovel
Number of Pages or Episodes157 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsWalker, Charles Rumford
PublisherAtlantic Monthly Press
CityBoston
Keywordsimmigrants; labor strikes; steel industry; Steel Strike of 1919; trade unions
Abstract

A novelized memoir of the author who spent the summer of 1919 working hard at Jones & Laughlin Steel in Aliquippa, Beaver County.
Author Biography

Charles Rumford Walker Jr. (1893-1974), born in New Hampshire and educated at Yale University, was a World War I veteran. He researched automation and industrial history for a number of academic organizations, including Yale's Project on Technology and Industrial Relations. Steel was the first of his many books.
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1919

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