Steel phoenix : the fall and rise of the U.S. steel industry / Christopher G.L. Hall
- Bib ID:
- 465048
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hall, Christopher (Christopher G. L.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1997
- xv, 427 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0312161980
- Summary:
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Steel Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of the U.S. Steel Industry is a remarkable story. Christopher Hall recounts the great downfall of "Big Steel" in America and the emergence of a new, reinvented steel industry from the ashes of the old. Beginning with the failures of Big Steel to respond to a changing world, Christopher Hall analyzes the powers and drives behind this "most basic" of industries, revealing how the "Rust Belt" of the 1970s and 1980s was created and how the death of the traditional steel industry devastated cities such as Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Youngstown. Hall then examines how pioneering entrepreneurs and engineers rebuilt the industry by recycling large supplies of scrap steel, giving way to a minimill industry that ultimately saved what was left of the old Big Steel mills.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Production of Steel
- 2. The Wasted Years: 1959-1974
- 3. Melting Down: The End of "Big Steel" in the United States, 1975-1989
- 4. Pleas for Protection: The Politics of Trade
- 5. The Rise of the Minimill
- 6. White Knights or Vultures? Foreign Investment in the U.S. Steel Industry
- 7. In the Fiery Furnace: the "Born Again" Mills
- 8. A Whole New Ball Game: The Flat Rolled Minimills
- 9. Sadder but Wiser: The Integrated Mills in the 1990s
- 10. Steel, the Global Economy, and the Twenty-first Century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-357) and index.
- Subject:
- Steel industry and trade -- United States -- History
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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