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Title

Big steel : the first century of the United States Steel Corporation / Kenneth Warren.

Author

Warren, Kenneth.

Publication

[Pittsburgh, Pa.] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Description

xviii, 405 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Alternative Title

First century of the United States Steel Corporation

Subject

• United States Steel Corporation > History
• Steel industry and trade > United States > History
• Steel industry and trade > Pittsburgh Region > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-397) and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction. Preeminent Size: The Economies and Diseconomies of Scale -- Pt. 1. The Gary Era. 1. Origins: The Creation of the United States Steel Corporation. 2. Early Years of Industry Leadership, 1901-1904. 3. Judge Gary's "Umbrella": The Advantages and Disadvantages of a Managed Industry. 4. The Changing Balance of Locational Advantage and Expansion: The Rail Trade and the Gary Project. 5. Government, Business, and Industrial Development: The Cases of Birmingham, Duluth, and a Canadian Plant. 6. Entrepreneurial Failure? Technological Backwardness, Constructional Steels, and the Universal Beam Mill. 7. The Interlude of Word War I. 8. Labor Conditions and Relations during the Gary Years -- Pt. 2. The 1920s, Depression, and Reconstruction. 9. The Changing Shape of Competition and the End of the Gary Years, 1919-1927. 10. ERW Pipe and the Wide Continuous Strip Mill: Instances of Delayed Innovation. 11. Crisis and Response: The Achievements of Myron Taylor, 1927-1938.
• 12. Labor Relations under Myron Taylor and Philip Murray. 13. New Regions: US Steel and the Changing Geography of the National Market -- Pt. 3. Expansion, Prosperity, and Increasing Problems. 14. Government-guided Growth: US Steel in World War II. 15. Filling Out the Production Map: US Steel beyond Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes, 1945-1970. 16. Triumph and Marking Time, 1945-1960. 17. A Time of Transition, the 1960s -- Pt. 4. Decline, Reconstruction, and Prospects. 18. Response to a Technological Revolution: The Large Blast Furnace, Oxygen Steel Making, and Continuous Casting. 19. Long-term Changes in Corporate Organization and Location. 20. The National Steel Industry since 1970. 21. The Chairmanships of Edwin H. Gott and Edgar B. Speer. 22. The Rationalizing of US Steel after 1979. 23. Labor on the Defensive during the Rationalization of the 1980s and 1990s. Conclusion. United States Steel in the Long View -- App. B. Chief Officers of US Steel.

ISBN

0822941600

OCLC

• ocm47235479
• SCSB-4165431

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