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storyWho Really Owned The City?No single organization owned Pittsburgh. The city was governed through competition among institutions powerful enough to control different parts of life. Industrial corporations controlled capital.Historypowercorruption
storyThe Vice District Built Beside RespectabilityPittsburgh’s vice districts did not exist outside respectable property markets. Brothels, saloons, lodging houses, theaters, churches, factories, and family homes could occupy the same few blocks.Historyviceproperty records
storyThe Strike That Asked Who Really Owned SteelHow twelve hour shifts, seven day schedules, immigrant labor, union organizing, corporate resistance, police power, racial division and America's Red Scare turned Pittsburgh's steel country into the center of a battle over who had the right to speak inside the mills.HistoryGreat Steel Strike1919