Steel
Autor: | Perelman, Dale Richard |
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EAN: | 9781540202017 |
Sachgruppe: | Geschichte |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 194 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 05.12.2016 |
Untertitel: | The Story of Pittsburgh's Iron and Steel Industry, 1852 1902 |
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Steel portrays the growth of the iron and steel industry in smoke-filled Pittsburgh during the nineteenth century. This fast-paced saga tells the story of millionaire steel titans Andrew Carnegie, Ben Franklin Jones, Henry Clay Frick, Henry Phipps and Charles Schwab strong-willed men who often plotted and schemed against each other, yet united against their underpaid and undervalued pro-union immigrant workforce. The juxtaposition of the haves and the have-nots produced bloody battles that exploded throughout Western Pennsylvania s plants, mines and railroad yards."