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'Tapped Out' A Worker's Memoir of Bethlehem Steel's Rise and Demise in Western New York

Michael D. Langan

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Description:When Bethlehem Steel left Lackawanna, NY, in 1982, it was the end of an era in America, a time of tumult in the steel industry that lasted most of the 20th century.This is the story of the rise and demise of Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna. In it, Michael D. Langan, who worked there from 1955 - 1963, writes about what the plant meant to him and to those he knew who saw it as a promise of work and a career.As a steelworker at Lackawanna's Bethlehem plant, Langan shared a part of the excitement of making steel. He was disappointed when the company disappeared from the scene twenty years later. Bethlehem Steel, he says, was like the Cheshire cat - cue its mischievous grin - that, upon disappearing, left a gaping economic hole in the Western New York community.The open hearth, he writes, was a huge, fiery, dangerous, forbidding place. Every day he went to work, he thought of the odds of not coming home. It was a place of excitement, with the drama of a heat of steel tapping out, as well as the rough and tumble of learning the job with older, experienced men making steel.'Tapped Out', the title of the book, is a phrase that takes on meaning beyond the emptying a furnace of a heat of steel. It was a notice of impending alarm, made prior to the second helper actually tapping the heat. The alarm warned workers on the pit-side of the furnace of an explosion of metal that could shoot across the pit before settling into the ladle. In plain language, it meant, "Get your butt out of the way or risk getting killed." 'Tapped Out' is also a phrase that means 'shot', beat-to-hell' and worn out.It was a phrase in the open hearth that had that extended meaning about life in general, suggesting there was nothing left to anticipate. In that sense, 'tapped out' describes Bethlehem Steel at the end of its days. Langan's hope is his book gives insight into an industrial era in America now gone. As has been said, "The furnaces are cold, the forges silent." Is there any doubt, he asks, that Bethlehem and its promise of a productive life for workers has 'tapped out'?This book is a testament and remembrance of the skills of those who toiled at the Bethlehen Lackawanna, New York plant.Michael D. Langan is a retired Treasury enforcement official. After leaving the Treasury Department, he worked as a Senior Expert for the United Nations, dealing with al Qaeda and Taliban isissues. Still later, he was senior adviser for corporate security at Time Warner in New York City for three years.Dr. Langan took his undergraduate and master's degrees from Canisius College in English (1959 and 1962), and received a doctorate in the organization and administration of higher education from State University of New York at Buffalo (1968).He served in three education posts - as director of admissions at Niagara University, as a vice president of Canisius College and as headmaster of Nardin Academy - for almost 25 years before going to Washington.Dr. Langan has written for the Boston Globe, the Buffalo News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the BBC and the Dublin Review of Books.He lives in Naples, FL with his wife of 51 years, Joanne. Langan can be reached at [email protected] have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 'Tapped Out' A Worker's Memoir of Bethlehem Steel's Rise and Demise in Western New York. To get started finding 'Tapped Out' A Worker's Memoir of Bethlehem Steel's Rise and Demise in Western New York, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: When Bethlehem Steel left Lackawanna, NY, in 1982, it was the end of an era in America, a time of tumult in the steel industry that lasted most of the 20th century.This is the story of the rise and demise of Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna. In it, Michael D. Langan, who worked there from 1955 - 1963, writes about what the plant meant to him and to those he knew who saw it as a promise of work and a career.As a steelworker at Lackawanna's Bethlehem plant, Langan shared a part of the excitement of making steel. He was disappointed when the company disappeared from the scene twenty years later. Bethlehem Steel, he says, was like the Cheshire cat - cue its mischievous grin - that, upon disappearing, left a gaping economic hole in the Western New York community.The open hearth, he writes, was a huge, fiery, dangerous, forbidding place. Every day he went to work, he thought of the odds of not coming home. It was a place of excitement, with the drama of a heat of steel tapping out, as well as the rough and tumble of learning the job with older, experienced men making steel.'Tapped Out', the title of the book, is a phrase that takes on meaning beyond the emptying a furnace of a heat of steel. It was a notice of impending alarm, made prior to the second helper actually tapping the heat. The alarm warned workers on the pit-side of the furnace of an explosion of metal that could shoot across the pit before settling into the ladle. In plain language, it meant, "Get your butt out of the way or risk getting killed." 'Tapped Out' is also a phrase that means 'shot', beat-to-hell' and worn out.It was a phrase in the open hearth that had that extended meaning about life in general, suggesting there was nothing left to anticipate. In that sense, 'tapped out' describes Bethlehem Steel at the end of its days. Langan's hope is his book gives insight into an industrial era in America now gone. As has been said, "The furnaces are cold, the forges silent." Is there any doubt, he asks, that Bethlehem and its promise of a productive life for workers has 'tapped out'?This book is a testament and remembrance of the skills of those who toiled at the Bethlehen Lackawanna, New York plant.Michael D. Langan is a retired Treasury enforcement official. After leaving the Treasury Department, he worked as a Senior Expert for the United Nations, dealing with al Qaeda and Taliban isissues. Still later, he was senior adviser for corporate security at Time Warner in New York City for three years.Dr. Langan took his undergraduate and master's degrees from Canisius College in English (1959 and 1962), and received a doctorate in the organization and administration of higher education from State University of New York at Buffalo (1968).He served in three education posts - as director of admissions at Niagara University, as a vice president of Canisius College and as headmaster of Nardin Academy - for almost 25 years before going to Washington.Dr. Langan has written for the Boston Globe, the Buffalo News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the BBC and the Dublin Review of Books.He lives in Naples, FL with his wife of 51 years, Joanne. Langan can be reached at [email protected] have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 'Tapped Out' A Worker's Memoir of Bethlehem Steel's Rise and Demise in Western New York. To get started finding 'Tapped Out' A Worker's Memoir of Bethlehem Steel's Rise and Demise in Western New York, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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