What Happened to Making Steel in Baltimore? - Mark Reutter on Reality Asserts Itself (3/3)

Mark Reutter, author of Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might, talks about why steel production collapsed across America

[@hamletundone]

i laid track there...years ago,,,,,was shocked in 08 when i flew in for my father's funeral and saw that beth steel had just about disappeared. both of my grand fathers, my dad and myself and just about everyone i knew worked there...that kind of work brings with it a pride that office work never can...now it's all financiers and bureaucrats...and killing by drones...sad sad sad.

[@hamletundone]

there is nothing "virtual" about a steel mill.

[@craignunnallypurcell]

Baltimore might want to consider marine transit and MTOD (Marine Transit Oriented Development) on the Bay.