Online retailers bring jobs and new life back to rust-belt communities
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
ELLEN Gaugler remembers driving her father to the Bethlehem Steel mill, where he spent his working years hauling beams off the assembly line and onto rail cars.
When the Pennsylvania plant shut down about two decades ago, Ms Gaugler thought that it was the last time that she or anyone in Bethlehem would go to its gates to find a job that paid a decent wage for a physical day of work.
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