Sparrows Point
Title | Sparrows Point PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Reutter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Sparrows Point
Title | Sparrows Point PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Helton |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738544298 |
Sparrows Point was on the map nearly a century before the city of Baltimore was laid out and just 20 years after the colony of Maryland was established. After receiving a land grant from Lord Baltimore in 1652, Thomas Sparrow named the area Sparrows Nest; although he never lived here and his heirs eventually disposed of the 600 acres, his name stuck. In 1886, the Pennsylvania Steel Company purchased 385 acres from Capt. and Mrs. William Fitzell, and work began immediately on a new plant, a shipyard, and a company town. Furnace A was fired up in October 1889. That same year, passenger rail service to and from Baltimore commenced. Meanwhile, laborers who chose to reside in the company town rented houses on streets with letters and numbers for names in locations designated by their job and race. By 1916, Bethlehem Steel had acquired Sparrows Point. Over time, the Point would become the worlds largest steel mill, supported by a prosperous, selfsufficient town.
Making Steel
Title | Making Steel PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Reutter |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780252072338 |
Making Steel chronicles the rise and fall of American steel by focusing on the fateful decisions made at the world's once largest steel mill at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Mark Reutter examines the business, production, and daily lives of workers as corporate leaders became more interested in their own security and enrichment than in employees, community, or innovative technology. This edition features 26 pages of photos, an author's preface, and a new chapter on the devastating effects of Bethlehem Steel's bankruptcy titled "The Discarded American Worker."
Sparrows Point LNG Terminal and Pipeline Project
Title | Sparrows Point LNG Terminal and Pipeline Project PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1010 |
Release | 2008 |
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ISBN |
Sparrows Point
Title | Sparrows Point PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph John Szymanski |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2012-02-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781469765938 |
This saga centers around the Chesapeake Bay and Mark Hopkins, a charismatic former SEAL, who juggles his family life with running a steel mill (Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point), leasing part of the land to a research institute for the study of nudity, and wheeling and dealing in art. After finding a Remington bronze in a thrift store, which is sold for a $450,000 profit, his steel mill is sabotaged by a millionaire to avenge the court martial of his corrupt son. Woven into the overtly-comic storyline are several protgs: a hair-stylist whos transformed into a TV astrological forecaster; a tech writer, into a cabaret singer; and a knuckleball pitcher, into a pro-baseball scout whose first discovery is a young Navajo catcher from Taos, NM. The action, suspense and pace are crafted to have you turning pages to see what happens next. Expect suggestive double-entendre one-liners to tickle your funnybone.
Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities
Title | Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0271047542 |
Roots of Steel
Title | Roots of Steel PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Rudacille |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2011-08-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400095891 |
As the American economy seeks to restructure itself, Roots of Steel is a powerful, candid, and eye-opening reminder of the people who have been left behind. When Deborah Rudacille was a child in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough to comfortably support a family. But the decline of American manufacturing in the decades since has put tens of thousands out of work and left the people of Dundalk pondering the broken promise of the American dream. In Roots of Steel, Rudacille combines personal narrative, interviews with workers, and extensive research to capture the character and history of this once-prosperous community.