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Jones and Laughlin American Works, 1880.
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Image of the workers inside the works.

Credit: Courtesy of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, from Carnegie Library at the Balch exhibit,"Discovering America: The Peopling of Pa."

During the years leading up to World War II, through the late 1940s, Pennsylvanians witnessed unparalleled factory production, as well as the greatest rise in union membership in the state's history.

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