They don't realize that we had to fight to go work hard. In the film, workers talk about the psychological problems that affect workers who have lost their jobs.
Work provides the fulfillment of material and emotional needs.
The making of this film was inspired by a television program on unemployed steelworkers which didn't mention African-American millworkers. In Steel uses oral history as a research tool. Suggested Activities Audio-tape interviews with family and friends about their recollections of the steel industry, about certain aspects of your town or neighborhood. Write the results and look for photos, newspapers. Select several photographs from your family's albums and write explanations of the people and places in the photos.