Author: Kenneth Warren
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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A richly detailed account of the American steel industry from its beginnings until 1970, when its long period of international leadership was challenged, this book interprets steel from viewpoints of historical and economic geography. It considers both physical factors, such as resouces, and human factors such as market, organization, and governmental policy. In major discussions of the east coast, Pittsburgh, the Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes, the South and the West, Warren analyzes the location and relocation of steel plants over 120 years. He explains the influence on location of a variety of factors: The accessibility of resources, the cost of transportation, the existence of specialized markets, and the availability of entrepreneurial skills, capital, and labor. He also evaluates the role of management in the development of the industry, through an analysis of individual companies, including Bethlehem, Carnegie, United States Steel, Kaiser, Inland, Jones and Laughlin, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Warren examines the influence exerted on the industry by complex technological changes and weighs their significance against market forces and the supply of natural resources. In the production process alone, the industry changed from pig iron to steel; from charcoal to anthracite; to bituminous coking coal; and from the widespread use of low-grade ore from the eastern United States, to the high quality but localized deposits of the Upper Great Lakes, to imported ores. Unlike other industrialized nations, the United States has undergone major geographical shifts in steel consumption since the 1850s. As the American population moved south and west into new territory, steel followed. Warren concludes that these radical alterations in the distribution and demand were the decisive force in the location of steel production.
Author: Kenneth Warren
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 333
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Languages : fr
Pages : 337
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Author: Robert P. Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135969167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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This book provides a basic outline of the history of the American steel industry, a sector of the economy that has been an important part of the industrial system. The book starts with the 1830's, when the American iron and steel industry resembled the traditional iron producing sector that had existed in the old world for centuries, and it ends in 2001. The product of this industry, steel, is an alloy of iron and carbon that has become the most used metal in the world. The very size of the steel industry and its position in the modern economy give it an unusual relevance to the economic, social, and political system.
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Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135969175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Author: Folke W. Sundblad
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Author: Bela Gold
Publisher: Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
ISBN:
Category : Steel industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Author: Christopher G. L. Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333698457
Category : Steel industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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Steel Phoenix recounts the downfall of 'Big Steel' in America and the emergence of a new steel industry from the ashes of the old. Hall reveals how the death of the traditional steel industry devastated cities such as Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Youngstown. Hall then proceeds to examine how pioneering entrepreneurs and engineers rebuilt the industry by recycling large supplies of scrap steel, giving way to a 'minimill' industry which ultimately saved what was left of old Big Steel mills. The story of an industry's surprising rebirth and restoration, Steel Phoenix is a riveting analysis and a necessary resource for any student of American business and history.
Author: William T. Hogan
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Author: William Thomas Hogan
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Category : Iron industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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