Road to Rust: The Disintegration of the Steel Industry in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
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As the twentieth century dawned on western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, the region’s steel industry faced a struggle for unionism. The industry was plagued by disasters that killed and maimed countless workers, many of them impoverished immigrants from Ireland, Hungary, and other nations—in 1906 alone, more than four hundred workers died in steel plant accidents.
In response, unionists like Philip Murray, John L. Lewis, Samuel Gompers, and Gus Hall began to battle for fair wages, hours, and working conditions. Managers like Judge Elbert Gary and Tom Girdler opposed their every move. Tensions from issues of immigration, class, skill, and race erupted throughout the industry.
The tribulations led to widespread steel strikes directed by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, and a war that killed scores and injured thousands. In this book, industrial relations expert Dale Richard Perelman charts the struggle and decline of the nation’s most prominent regional steel industry.
Dale Richard Perelman
Dale Perelman, a native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, and retired president of the King's Jewelry retail chain, has written Steel: The History of Pittsburgh's Iron and Steel Industry, 1852-1902 ; Road to Rust: The Disintegration of the Steel Industry in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio ; Lessons My Father Taught Me ; The Scottish Rite Cathedral (coauthored with Rob Cummings); New Castle's Kadunce Murders: Mystery and the Devil in Northwest Pennsylvania ; and Death at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles . Perelman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in English Literature, an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a certificate of completion from the Yale University summer writer's program.
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