The most important division of Sitkin Smelting and Refining, Inc., is the brass foundry. The Hot World looks at two men who work in this noisy and hazardous area. Bill Stimely is a furnace foreman in the brass foundry of Sitkin Smelting and Refining, Inc. Leon Grassmeyer is foundry manager. Their workplaces are the same; their working worlds are not. Bill is an 8th-grade drop-out, a "hard hat," an hourly worker, proud of what he does. Leon is a former army officer, former high school teacher, a member of the "management team," proud of what he does. Bill "takes life as it comes," hoping to become a stock-car racer. Leon manages, motivates, measures himself by the foundry's production levels, and assumes steady promotions. The comparisons are clear and direct; this is the world of work at its most familiar. From the "Notes on an American Business" series. Produced by P J O’Connell for Penn State Public Broadcasting and The Rural America Documentary Project. ©1977
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