Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker

Year of Publication
1922
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
157 p.
Language
English
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
City
Boston
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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.
Time
1919
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