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…

…showed last 75 words of 1225 total…Americans looked at the immigrants as not completely human. Through Bell’s book you were able to see that they were humans, and most important that they were not being treated fairly. The days of early industrialized America seemed like a scary, unreliable place and a person now a days would have to say that the labor force that made this country what it is today, had enormous amounts of courage and strength of will.