Looking back, labor unions were strangely central to a lot of the earliest hits of HBO’s prestige era. Corrupt union politics and all those “no show” construction jobs serve as an ambient background for many of The Sopranos’ plotlines; The Wire devoted its entire second season to the Shakespearean tragedy of Frank Sobotka and the International Brotherhood of Stevedores; Deadwood’s microcosmic American origin story was haunted, through its entire run, by the looming threat of brutal, strike-break
Uno Pizzeria and Grill, one of the original tenants at The Waterfront in Homestead, has baked its last pie. A note on the Facebook page of the Boston-based chain said it is permanently closed. The Waterfront management office confirmed the restaurant has gone dark. Calls to the restaurant were unanswered
Survey of the Homestead Strike, the violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Learn more about who was involved, why the strike occurred, what its outcome was, and what its lasting significance is.
Carnegie Steel Company, American steel company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founded by Scottish-born American industrialist Andrew Carnegie and a handful of associates in the late 1800s. The name Carnegie Steel Company can refer to Carnegie’s first steel plant, which opened in 1875, as