The Rise and Fall of America's Most Famous Steel City: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh once produced more steel than Great Britain. Andrew Carnegie built the world's most profitable steel empire there. U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation, was headquartered on Grant Street. This is the story of how the city that built modern America — from the Brooklyn Bridge to warship armor plate — lost more than one hundred and fifty thousand manufacturing jobs in less than a decade and became the archetype of the Rust Belt. 🔔 Subscribe for more:    / @tartariacodex   ▶️ Watch Next: Why Nobody Wants to Visit Niagara Falls, New York Anymore The Rise and Fall of America's Most Powerful Ranch Empire: 6666 Ranch, Texas Why America Deliberately Destroyed Its Own Rust Belt ⏱️ Timestamps: 0:00 — The Biggest Employer in Pittsburgh Is Now a Hospital 0:50 — Three Rivers and the Birth of the Smoky City 4:00 — Andrew Carnegie: From Telegraph Boy to Steel King 8:30 — The Homestead Strike of 1892 13:00 — U.S. Steel, the Mellons, and Industrial Supremacy 17:00 — Peak Pittsburgh: Smoke So Thick the Streetlights Burned at Noon 21:00 — The Japanese Challenge and the Refusal to Modernize 24:00 — The Collapse: 150,000 Jobs in Eight Years 30:00 — Mon Valley Ghost Towns 33:00 — Renaissance Two: Universities, Hospitals, and Tech 36:00 — The Homestead Works Is Now a Shopping Center 📋 Topics Covered: — Three rivers confluence and Fort Pitt origins — Early iron and glass industry, Charles Dickens's "hell with the lid taken off" — Eastern European immigration and the mill town culture — Andrew Carnegie: cotton mill to steel empire, Bessemer process, vertical integration — The Homestead Strike of 1892: Frick, the Pinkertons, and the broken union — Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" and the contradiction of his philanthropy — J.P. Morgan's $480 million purchase and the creation of U.S. Steel — Mellon banking dynasty, Westinghouse, and Heinz — WWII steel production and the Smoky City at its peak — Union steelworkers and the economics of a mill town — Japanese and German steel competition in the 1970s — The 1982-83 recession and the cascade of mill closures — Mon Valley devastation: unemployment, suicide, community collapse — Braddock, McKeesport, Homestead, Duquesne population loss — Carnegie Mellon, UPMC, and the tech renaissance — Google, Uber, Apple in Pittsburgh — and who benefits — The Waterfront shopping center on the Homestead Works site ⚠️ Disclaimer: This video is for educational and entertainment purposes. While every effort was made to ensure accuracy, viewers are encouraged to conduct their own research for the most current information. #Pittsburgh #SteelCity #RustBelt #AndrewCarnegie #USSteel #HomesteadStrike #AmericanHistory #Documentary #MonValley #PittsburghPA