women iron and steel workers

"A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill... To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian roots, Eliese found herself applying for a job at the local steel mill"--Provided by publisher.

Reprints the 1861 story about a woman from an impoverished family who is forced to work in an iron mill, originally published in "Atlantic Monthly" magazine, and includes two additional nineteenth-century feminist stories.