Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor

We are looking for the history of America industry and the building of America on our vacations. This was during our rustbelt to her where we found most everything was gone. This Museum gave one of the best overviews of the steel industry in this Valley you can hope to get. Although told a little bit too much from the labor side rather than the industry side it gives an outstanding story of the history of the beginning of the steel mills in this Valley and the steel industry up to about 1965. You learn about steel processing the building of the town's the strikes and then finally the closing of all the mills in the valley within a short period of time. Alas you do not read about the fact that the unions created such a hostile situation that the companies didn't attempt to modernize plants but that would have reduce the labor force by at least half and only resulted in union strikes and no modernization. It is a shame that's the lesson of unions destroying Industries does not seem to be learned even in hindsight. This is a must-see Museum if you're interested in the history of America's industry and what happened to all the huge structures and Machinery of that era