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Episodes tagged "Iron and Steel Industry": 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. EPA enacts clean air act, aggravating public
    date November, 1970 to December, 1971map Jefferson, Alabamatags Environmental History, Iron and Steel Industry, Birmingham, Alabama

    “I’ve lived with pollution 50-something years.  I guess I can put up with it” quipped Eugene Campbell on the day the Environmental Protection Agency ordered the shutdown of Birmingham, Alabama’s steel plants. The plants were shut following a court order under the aegis of the 1970 Clean Air Act which set safe levels for particulates in the atmosphere, levels that Birmingham had routinely exceeded....

  2. Safety Conditions in the Iron and Steel Industry
    date 1950 to 1971map Jefferson, Alabamatags Economy, Iron and Steel Industry, Industrial Safety Conditi

    “The foreman would let you know if it was safe. Because he said something was safe didn’t mean it was safe.” This is how Ulysses S. Anderson described the safety conditions at Sloss Furnace, a pig-iron producing blast furnace in Birmingham, Alabama. While being interviewed by the Sloss Furnace Association Anderson spent a great amount of time describing the safety conditions he encountered during...

  3. An African American Worker at Sloss Furnace Encounters the Color Line
    date 1925 to 1950map Jefferson, Alabamatags Iron and Steel Industry, Economy, Race-Relations, African-Americans

    '"A nigger can't bid for a white man's job." was how Alonzo Gaines described labor divisions among African Americans and whites at the time he was employed at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1984 Gaines sat down in an interview with the Sloss Furnace Association with the goal of recording his thoughts on his career at Sloss Furnaces, a pig-iron producing blast furnace in Birmingham, Alabama....