STEEL CITY. T here’s a saying in this part of Ohio and across struggling old Rust Belt cities: “The threat is real from foreign steel.” It slips easily from the mouths of grizzled union guys ...

From steel to electricity to food, the innovators and barons of America’s biggest industries called the Steel City home. In his debut novel, “Steel City: A Story of Pittsburgh,” William J ...

In the 1950s, as the demand for steel slackened with the end of the Korean War, layoffs hit Black workers first — they tended to be marginalized within the union, and kept in the worst positions ...