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The Resource Rust : a memoir of steel and grit, Eliese Colette Goldbach

Rust : a memoir of steel and grit, Eliese Colette Goldbach

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"A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill... To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian roots, Eliese found herself applying for a job at the local steel mill. The mill is everything she was trying to escape, but it's also her only shot at financial security in an economically devastated and forgotten part of America. In Rust, Eliese brings the reader inside the belly of the mill and the middle American upbringing that brought her there in the first place. She takes a long and intimate look at her Rust Belt childhood and struggles to reconcile her desire to leave without turning her back on the people she's come to love. The people she sees as the unsung backbone of our nation. Faced with the financial promise of a steelworker's paycheck, and the very real danger of working in an environment where a steel coil could crush you at any moment or a vat of molten iron could explode because of a single drop of water, Eliese finds unexpected warmth and camaraderie among the gruff men she labors beside each day. Appealing to readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, Rust is a story of the humanity Eliese discovers in the most unlikely and hellish of places, and the hope that therefore begins to grow"--
Language
eng
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Edition
First edition.
Extent
310 pages
Isbn
9781250239402
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Rust : a memoir of steel and grit
Title
Rust
Title remainder
a memoir of steel and grit
Statement of responsibility
Eliese Colette Goldbach
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill... To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian roots, Eliese found herself applying for a job at the local steel mill. The mill is everything she was trying to escape, but it's also her only shot at financial security in an economically devastated and forgotten part of America. In Rust, Eliese brings the reader inside the belly of the mill and the middle American upbringing that brought her there in the first place. She takes a long and intimate look at her Rust Belt childhood and struggles to reconcile her desire to leave without turning her back on the people she's come to love. The people she sees as the unsung backbone of our nation. Faced with the financial promise of a steelworker's paycheck, and the very real danger of working in an environment where a steel coil could crush you at any moment or a vat of molten iron could explode because of a single drop of water, Eliese finds unexpected warmth and camaraderie among the gruff men she labors beside each day. Appealing to readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, Rust is a story of the humanity Eliese discovers in the most unlikely and hellish of places, and the hope that therefore begins to grow"--
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Biography type
autobiography
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1986-
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Goldbach, Eliese Colette
Dewey number
  • 669/.1092
  • B
Index
no index present
LC call number
HD6073.I52
LC item number
U646 2020
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Goldbach, Eliese Colette
  • Women iron and steel workers
  • Working class
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Rust : a memoir of steel and grit, Eliese Colette Goldbach
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Control code
on1126348378
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
310 pages
Isbn
9781250239402
Lccn
2019046769
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1126348378
Label
Rust : a memoir of steel and grit, Eliese Colette Goldbach
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1126348378
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
310 pages
Isbn
9781250239402
Lccn
2019046769
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1126348378

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