Steel, The Diary of a Furnace Worker
by Charles R. Walker
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About this eBook
- Author
- Walker, Charles R. (Charles Rumford), 1893-1974
- Title
- Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker
- Credits
- Produced by Odessa Paige Turner, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
- Subject
- Iron and steel workers -- United States
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38932
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38932
- Release Date
- February 19, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STEEL The Diary of a Furnace Worker By CHARLES RUMFORD WALKER
- 2.Foreword — FOOTNOTE:
- 3.Contents
- 4.I CAMP EUSTIS—BOUTON, PENNSYLVANIA
- 5.II MOLTEN STEEL—AN INITIATION — FOOTNOTE:
- 6.III THE OPEN-HEARTH—NIGHT-SHIFTS
- 7.IV EVERYDAY LIFE
- 8.V WORKING THE TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR SHIFT
- 9.VI BLAST-FURNACE APPRENTICESHIP
- 10.VII DUST, HEAT, AND COMRADESHIP
- 11.VIII I TAKE A DAY OFF
- 12.IX "NO CAN LIVE"
- 13.EPILOGUE A Furnace-Worker Talks over the Twelve-Hour Day
- 14.EPILOGUE — FOOTNOTE:
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