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The Dark Story of America's Greatest Steel Empire: Homestead Works, Pennsylvania

In the summer of 1892, the Homestead Steel Works employed 3,800 men and produced more steel than any plant on earth. Carnegie had built an empire here — four miles of furnaces along the Monongahela River, fed by immigrant labor from Slovakia, Poland, and Croatia, and powered by the finest coking coal in the world. Ninety-four years later, the last worker walked out the gates and didn't come back. This is the story of what rose here, what it cost, and what it means that it's gone. The strike of 1892. The golden years nobody talks about. The slow collapse that started long before 1986. And the 2,700 people still living in a town built for fifty thousand. Homestead didn't just make steel. It made the Brooklyn Bridge, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, the tanks of World War II. It made the American middle class. Then the math changed. And nobody in Washington or Pittsburgh's boardrooms told the workers until it was already over.