Plight of Labor/Bell's Furnace

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A 4 page book review/research paper that examines this novel in order to discern the plight of labor unions in the steel industry from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. First published in 1941, Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace is novel that tells the story of three generations of a Slovak immigrant family. The writer argues that this novel can be read as more than fiction, as it can be seen as an accurate representation of immigrant acculturation to America, as well as an historical account of how labor developed during the decades covered by the novel. No other sources cited.