Where Was ‘60 Minutes’ and the Rest of the Liberal Press When America’s Industrial Heartland Became the Rust Belt?
The people here, it seems, were expendable to the elite. They had no college education, did not live in the right ZIP codes, and besides, someone overseas could do what they do.
CAMPBELL, Ohio — September 19 marked 47 years since thousands of employees, who were mainly men, did what they did every Monday in the valley. They walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River for the early shift.
Within an hour of the laborers’ shift, Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 of them in a single day. Within months, 16 more plants owned by U.S. Steel shut down, including Youngstown-based Ohio Works.
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