Out of This Furnace

In the late 1800s, George Kracha settles in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to work in the steel mills at ten cents an hour. A half century later, Dobie Dobrejcak, a third generation Kracha, is heavily involved in the successful unionization of the steel industry. The powerful Robber Barons of the Gilded Age were a handful of extremely wealthy capitalists who ran the steel, oil and banking industries with an iron fist. The successful unionization of the steel industry represented a leveling of the playing field between the steel workers and powerful tycoons like Andrew Carnegie. Before this time the mill workers sacrificed their lives in a dangerous industry where low wages, long hou

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