Better than the Best

Better than the Best is about the role Scottish Presbyterians played in the rise and growth of the Industrial Age in the United States . Pittsburgh steel executives build the world’s largest steel plant and a worker’s paradise to house workers in Pennsylvania. Workers are essentially required to purchase lots in the new town at inflated prices. The town grows with the rise of the steel industry, and nearly five thousand workers, mostly immigrant, are employed. But the town must adjust to automation and the collapse of the steel industry in the twentieth century