Economy
In Baltimore, Visions of Life After Steel
The vast Bethlehem Steel mill in Sparrows Point outside Baltimore once employed 30,000 workers. Now it’s on the brink of something new.
On Thursday, May 16, retired Bethlehem Steel worker Phil Pack will appear at “Workin’ It: Stories about Making a Living in Baltimore,” a live storytelling event from the Stoop Storytelling Series and CityLab, at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. For ticket and event info, go here.
The Sparrows Point steelworks was born in the first Gilded Age and died in the second. In the mid-20th century, more than 30,000 families lived on its wages; by 2012, when the hulking facility outside Baltimore closed its doors for good, fewer than 2,000 remained.