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storyThe Night Pittsburgh Burned the RailroadHow wage cuts, a new operating order, militia gunfire, economic desperation, corporate power and a crowd nobody fully controlled turned Pittsburgh into one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.HistoryGreat Railroad Strike1877
storyPittsburgh Cleaned Up City Hall—Then Power Learned the New RulesIn 1911 Pittsburgh replaced its sprawling ward-based councils with nine at-large seats; decades later, representation problems forced the city to reform the reform.Historycity council1911 reform
storyThe Price of a Pittsburgh CouncilmanPittsburgh’s early-twentieth-century graft investigations showed how council votes, bank interests and public business could acquire a private price—and helped destroy the old council structure.Historycity hallgraft
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