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Eventually, Goldbach finally felt able to move on from the mill and get her diploma. RUST A Memoir of Steel and GritBy Eliese Colette Goldbach.
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In “Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit,” Eliese Colette Goldbach describes working under that flame — the “flare stack” — beginning with the day in the spring of 2016 when she pulls into the parking lot and becomes Utility Worker No.
Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. It was the struggle to pay off her student loans that prompted her to apply for a job at the steel mill.
The noise is thunderous, and the place stinks, too.
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… It was nothing like I imagined.”.
“Rust” is an elegiac look at an overlooked segment of our country: the working women and men who put on their hardhats every day and risk their lives and health doing heavy labor.
Instead, she found herself an outsider, unable to connect with the other women, who mostly just wanted to meet a husband. Her book deal came about almost by accident.
She tells us at the outset that she has a genetic and biological propensity for bipolar disorder, and it is in Steubenville that it emerges. Some people bristled at J.D.
“I was looking for a paycheck and insurance, but once I stepped into it, I knew this was nonfiction gold,” she explains.
“It made me realize the world was more complex than I thought it was,” says the author. But few of us ever get a glimpse inside these building where so much of Cleveland’s history was built — literally.
And not just because of Goldbach’s gender. But the pay is good, and the new recruits are made to feel as if they’d won the lottery.
“This is a world most people never see.
When a friend mentioned how lucrative a job at ArcelorMittal could be, the struggling 20-something applied and finally got the job after a grueling application process. Her boyfriend breaks up with her.
The sheltered young woman also found a brutal awakening to the harsher realities of the world.
The billowing smokestacks. And the sound of when the mill is going, you can feel it through you.
A literary agent saw this and got in touch with her to pitch the idea of a book. Goldbach is interested in the chemistry of steelmaking, but she swiftly comes to understand that “most steelworkers didn’t know how steel was made.
7 p.m. Thursday, March 12: Cuyahoga Public Library, Beachwood Branch, 25501 Shaker Blvd., Beachwood.
General Steel Corporation was formed in 1991 to acquire and operate the assets of a steel plate burning company that began in 1958.
Early on, Goldbach’s life goal was to be a nun, not an industrial worker. Surprises included the danger that she and her colleagues faced every day, as well as the sense of community she found on the mill floor.
The memoir of a female steel worker — the story of any steel worker, really — is not the usual fodder of the literary establishment. “I never expected her to go into steel but was thrilled when she got the job, because it had been so hard for her to make ends meet,” says her mother, Sandy Goldbach. Every day, thousands of Clevelanders drive past the steel mills down on the Cuyahoga, hulking testaments to our city’s heart and soul. A magazine essay she wrote included a brief bio that mentioned being a steel worker in the Rust Belt.
She understands the outrage of the steelworkers when a shopping mall was built on “steel mill soil.” Cleveland isn’t as famous for steel as Pittsburgh, but the Mistake on the Lake — as only its own citizens are allowed to call it — was a major supplier to Detroit’s automotive industry, and steel is at the core of its identity.