iron and steel workers

"A Sports Illustrated senior writer presents a [story] of football in industrial America, tracing the story of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania's now-shuttered steel mill, and its... high school football team"--NoveList.

This book lays out what qualifications and training are necessary to get a job installing sheet metal or doing ironwork.

The Salcido family, immigrants to the United States from Mexico, struggle to reconcile their need for jobs at the mighty Nazareth steel mill in Southern California with the low pay, back-breaking labor, and harsh treatment they receive--a situation that weighs most heavily on twenty-year-old Johnny, a second-generation mill worker.

In the 1930s, John Cloud travels from his Mohawk Indian reservation in upstate New York to New York City where he watches with pride as his father helps to build the Empire State Building.

Uses the experiences of an unemployed steel worker and his family in Pittsburgh to describe the events of the economic depression that gripped the country from 1929 through 1933.