1. What is the background, identify, and circumstances of the characters in the books Out of This Furnace and the Factory workers in Triangle? What do they have in common?

2.In what ways do these books demonstrate the consequences of industrialization in the living and working lives of America's working poor during the late 19th/early 20th century?

3. How do the Braddock steelworkers and Triangle factory workers respond to their respective situations, and what are the short-term and long -term results? Mainly organized labor movement, reaction of management and ultimate reforms?