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FALLING FURNACES

FALLING FURNACES

ERIC LEIF DAVIN

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2024
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9781304053299
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The future of post-industrial America came to Pittsburgh in 1980. As the steel industry collapsed and disappeared in the Steel City, steelworkers, radicals, and activists of all types fought against the falling furnaces. This is the story of their fight against the destruction of industrial America by one who was there.

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