Out of this furnace Thomas Bell, author of Out of This Furnace, wrote a novel about immigrant labor in turn of the century America. Bell grew up in Braddock, Pennsylvania a steel town. While this book is fiction, Bell bases most of the hardships on those of his family. In the late eighteenth century immigrants came to America in search of a better way of life. Most immigrants only found hardship however, and that is …showed first 75 words of 1225 total…

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