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Big steel : the first century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001 / Kenneth Warren

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Warren, Kenneth
Additional Titles
First century of the United States Steel Corporation
Published
[Pittsburgh, Pa.] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001]
Copyright Date
©2001
Physical Description
xviii, 405 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Contents
THE GARY ERA: Origins: The Creation of the United States Steel Corporation Early years of industry leadership, 1901-1904 -- Judge Gary's "umbrella": the advantages and disadvantages of a managed industry -- The changing balance of locational advantage and expansion: the rail trade and the gary project -- Government, business, and industrial development: the cases of Birmingham, Duluth, and a Canadian Plant -- Entrepreneurial failure? technological backwardness, constructional steels, and the universal beam mill -- The interlude of World War I -- Labor conditions and relations during the Gary Years -- THE 1920s, DEPRESSION, AND RECONSTRUCTION: The changing shape of competition and the end of the Gary Years, 1919-1927 -- ERW pipe and the wide continuous strip mill: instances of delayed innovation -- Crisis and response: the achievements of Myron Taylor, 1927-1938 -- Labor relations under Myron Taylor and Philip Murray -- New regions: US steel and the changing geography of the national market -- EXPANSION, PROSPERITY, AND INCREASING PROBLEMS: Government-guided growth: US Steel in World War II -- Filling out the production map: US steel beyond Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes, 1945-1970 -- Triumph and marking time, 1945-1960 -- A time of transition, the l960s -- DECLINE, RECONSTRUCTION, AND PROSPECTS: Response to a technological revolution: the large blast furnace, oxygen steel making, and continuous casting -- Long-term changes in corporate organization and location -- The national steel industry since 1970 -- The chairmanships of Edwin H. Gott and Edgar B. Speer -- The rationalizing of us steel after 1979 -- Labor on the defensive during the rationalization of the 1980s and 1990s.
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ISBN
0822941600
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-397) and index.
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Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
University Libraries Endowment (Harrisburg)
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