Volume 26, Number 6 · April 19, 1979
The Fight to Save the Steel Mills
By Staughton Lynd
For some years I have been practicing law in Youngstown, Ohio, a town of about 150,000 people on the Pennsylvania border that has been one of the major steel-making centers in America since the turn of the century. Thousands of families here depend on the steel mills for their living. Now the mills are in trouble. Some are closing down. In response—quite unexpectedly—the steelworkers have been demanding a say in the decisions to close down the plants, even the chance to take part in controlling them. How are they going about this and do they have any chance to succeed? The answers may have serious effects on the way industrial decisions are made, at a time when other large American companies want to cut back production or move their factories.
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