Une jeune femme riche, hérite d'une acièrie. Pour aider son entreprise à continuer de fonctionner, elle s'unit à un homme...Mais deux escrocs tentent de détruire la production afin de la forcer à vendre pour une somme dérisoire.
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.
A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.
Un immigrant européen devient un maître de l'industrie, mais perd presque sa famille.
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
Steve Kostain, nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up. He rooms with a steel working family, the McNamaras, and falls for the daughter, "Red", who is already involved with another steelworker. Although he is at first has a hard time with his co-workers, he eventually wins them over, and also wins the girl.
Pittsburgh, XIXe siècle. Issue d'une famille d'ouvriers qui travaillent dans une aciérie, Mary Rafferty devient bonne à tout faire chez les Scott, une des riches familles de la ville. Très vite, la jeune femme attire l'attention de Paul, mais leur histoire d'amour se heurte à un conflit social qui éclate chez les ouvriers.
Russell sort de prison, après 4 ans passés derrière les barreaux. Il se lance à la recherche de son jeune frère, porté disparu. Depuis son retour d'Irak, celui-ci s'était retrouvé mêlé aux agissements d'un redoutable gang...