People line up for bags of food at a food bank for unemployed steelworkers, Braddock, PA, January 25, 1983.

Credit: Image donated by Corbis-Bettmann

Massive job losses due to collapse of Pennsylvania's steel industry in the late 1900s devastated mill towns and left tens of thousands of once well-paid industrial workers searching for lower-paying, less skilled occupations, and without the protections of union membership.