Dale Perelman published Road to Rust: The Disintegration of the Steel Industry in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio with the History Press. He writes: “While unionists like John L. Lewis and Samuel Gompers battled for fair wages and working conditions, strong managers like Judge Elbert Gary and Tom Girdler opposed their every move. The book charts the bloody battles leading to the victory of the United Steel Workers in 1937 and follows the eventual decline of the American steel industry in the 1980s.”
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