In the winter of 1988 the Zeit-Magazin ran a three-part report on the vehement workers’ protests against the closure of the Krupp steelworks in Rheinhausen. Through the example of the Ebert family, who had worked for four generations at the legendary ironworks near Duisburg, the journalist Wolfram Runkel and the photographer Dirk Reinartz documented in words and images the history and decline of the Rheinhausen site. The shift unfolded gradually—from unconditional solidarity with the company, which offered its employees not only jobs but a whole system of everyday and leisure facilities, to bitter disappointment and revolt. Rheinhausen became the symbol of the “steel crisis” and of the end of a more than hundred-year-old industry.