steel industry
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork dam, on the land of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club above the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, collapsed during a heavy rainstorm..
On December 21, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Allegheny Technologies committed a labor violation when it locked out workers at steel plants across the country back in August..
The steel industry in the United States declined for reasons a bit more complicated than a lot of other industries. It wasn't so much that steel manufacturers moved overseas so.
On September 19, 1977, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company shut down its operations, laying off approximately 4100 workers. This event, which became known as Black Monday, was emblematic of.
Probably the most underreported story in American labor right now is what's going on steel. There are more unionized steel jobs in the U.S. than you'd think and a lot.
There aren't a lot of steel jobs in the U.S. anymore but the ones that remain are about the disappear as U.S. Steel announces more layoffs. At the core of.
An appropriate song to end this exploration of labor and song is this piece on deindustrialization, Tom Russell's "U.S. Steel." I hope you enjoyed this set of labor music.
On April 8, 1952, President Harry Truman nationalized the steel industry in order to forestall a strike scheduled the next day that would have shut down steel production during the.