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Homestead Steel Works was a large steel works located on the Monongahela River at Homestead, Pennsylvania in the United States. The company developed in the nineteenth century as an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a railway 425 miles (684 km) long, and a line of lake steamships.
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892. [5] The governor responded by sending in the National Guard to protect ...
Carnegie Steel made major technological innovations in the 1880s, especially the installation of the open hearth furnace system at Homestead in 1886. It now became possible to make steel suitable for structural beams and, with the advanced work of George Lauder in arms and armament, for armor plate for the US Navy and the militaries of other ...
The conflict was centered on Carnegie Steel's main plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and grew out of a labor dispute between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) and the Carnegie Steel Company. Carnegie left on a trip to Scotland before the unrest peaked. [83]
This historic district encompasses the site of the Homestead Strike of 1892, when the Carnegie Steel Company, under the leadership of Henry Clay Frick, broke the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers union.
Environmental assessment of the site has been conducted in two phases. The first phase was completed in 2007 and the second is currently underway. 1881 – Carrie Furnace is built; 1892 – Homestead Strike; 1898 – Site purchased by Andrew Carnegie; 1901 – Incorporated into U.S. Steel; 1978 – Shutdown; 1988 – Sold to Park Corporation
By the mid-1980s, the U.S. steel industry produced just about 11% of steel used globally as economic growth in developed countries slowed. By then, the United States was importing more than 25% of ...
In 1885, Carnegie ousted the AA at the Edgar Thomson works. [23] An organizing drive at the Homestead plant in 1896 was crushed by Frick. In May 1899, 300 Homestead workers successfully formed a lodge, but Frick ordered the Homestead works shut down and the unionization effort collapsed. Carnegie Steel remained nonunionized. [24]