Author: Ric A. Dias, Foreword by Nicholas R. Cataldo
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467151491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The steel facility that helped advance the modern American West. Through his record-busting construction career, Henry J. Kaiser continuously pulled off the impossible. When he announced his plans to enter the wartime shipbuilding business and to mass-produce steel in the small, agricultural town of Fontana, experts were shocked, but his determination made him a national figure. "Miracle Man Kaiser" built a steel plant in record time, and it churned out over a million tons of the invaluable metal for the 1940s war effort. In an industry rocked by disharmony, his company adopted the slogan 'Together We Build', and his skill in navigating labor relations made it a powerhouse. Join author and historian Ric A. Dias as he highlights the successes, failures, and limits of this trailblazer's dreams.
Kaiser Steel of Fontana: Together We Build
Author: Ric A. Dias, Foreword by Nicholas R. Cataldo
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467151491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The steel facility that helped advance the modern American West. Through his record-busting construction career, Henry J. Kaiser continuously pulled off the impossible. When he announced his plans to enter the wartime shipbuilding business and to mass-produce steel in the small, agricultural town of Fontana, experts were shocked, but his determination made him a national figure. "Miracle Man Kaiser" built a steel plant in record time, and it churned out over a million tons of the invaluable metal for the 1940s war effort. In an industry rocked by disharmony, his company adopted the slogan 'Together We Build', and his skill in navigating labor relations made it a powerhouse. Join author and historian Ric A. Dias as he highlights the successes, failures, and limits of this trailblazer's dreams.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467151491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The steel facility that helped advance the modern American West. Through his record-busting construction career, Henry J. Kaiser continuously pulled off the impossible. When he announced his plans to enter the wartime shipbuilding business and to mass-produce steel in the small, agricultural town of Fontana, experts were shocked, but his determination made him a national figure. "Miracle Man Kaiser" built a steel plant in record time, and it churned out over a million tons of the invaluable metal for the 1940s war effort. In an industry rocked by disharmony, his company adopted the slogan 'Together We Build', and his skill in navigating labor relations made it a powerhouse. Join author and historian Ric A. Dias as he highlights the successes, failures, and limits of this trailblazer's dreams.
Together We Build
Author: John Gilcrest
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aluminum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aluminum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Together We Build
Author: Ric Anthony Dias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Kaiser Steel, Fontana
Author: John Charles Anicic Jr.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439618143
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In the first half of the 20th century, Fontana Farms Company operated a hog ranch on the site where Kaiser Company Incorporated later erected one of the nations largest steel mills. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States was forced into an unprecedented escalation in the production of ships, planes, and armaments. Soon the sensational announcement came to San Bernardino County that Fontana, a railroad convergence located a safe distance from possible coastal bombardment, would become home to thousands of sweathogs in the war effort. A gold rush of sorts ensued, and all property south of Valencia Street to the railroad was sold in a week. This book pays tribute to the fact that, for two generations, Kaiser Steel Corporation at Fontana was among Californias and the nations industrial giants.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439618143
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In the first half of the 20th century, Fontana Farms Company operated a hog ranch on the site where Kaiser Company Incorporated later erected one of the nations largest steel mills. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States was forced into an unprecedented escalation in the production of ships, planes, and armaments. Soon the sensational announcement came to San Bernardino County that Fontana, a railroad convergence located a safe distance from possible coastal bombardment, would become home to thousands of sweathogs in the war effort. A gold rush of sorts ensued, and all property south of Valencia Street to the railroad was sold in a week. This book pays tribute to the fact that, for two generations, Kaiser Steel Corporation at Fontana was among Californias and the nations industrial giants.
Journal of the West
Author: Lorrin L. Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Library Acquisitions List
Author: Martin P. Catherwood Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Distribution and Exportaton of Alaska and California Crude Oil
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Special Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Distribution and Exportation of Alaska and California Crude Oil
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Special Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
The American Steel Industry
Author: Luc Kiers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000314588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
What is the cause of the American steel industry's deplorable situation today? Troubled in many areas—competition from imports, technology implementation, cost and utilization of raw materials, investment policy, philosophy of management, and union attitudes, to name only a few—can the industry survive? These are the questions Dr. Kiers confronts in this book. Unless answers can be found, he warns, the result will be further decline and, finally, bankruptcy or nationalization. Unwilling to accept either possibility, Dr. Kiers challenges the steel industry to achieve a rebirth he sees as feasible only through a hard-nosed, realistic approach, an insistence on innovation, and a willingness to apply discipline to every facet of steel making. Dr. Kiers presents an in-depth analysis of Japan's steel industry, compares it with the U.S. industry, and discusses U.S. technology and import problems with reference to Japan. He then inventories the factors responsible for the current problems and lays the groundwork for a new start, going on to point out that the difficulties faced by the steel industry may be a portent of what will happen to other industries unless they, too, reassess both labor and management attitudes and make radical changes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000314588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
What is the cause of the American steel industry's deplorable situation today? Troubled in many areas—competition from imports, technology implementation, cost and utilization of raw materials, investment policy, philosophy of management, and union attitudes, to name only a few—can the industry survive? These are the questions Dr. Kiers confronts in this book. Unless answers can be found, he warns, the result will be further decline and, finally, bankruptcy or nationalization. Unwilling to accept either possibility, Dr. Kiers challenges the steel industry to achieve a rebirth he sees as feasible only through a hard-nosed, realistic approach, an insistence on innovation, and a willingness to apply discipline to every facet of steel making. Dr. Kiers presents an in-depth analysis of Japan's steel industry, compares it with the U.S. industry, and discusses U.S. technology and import problems with reference to Japan. He then inventories the factors responsible for the current problems and lays the groundwork for a new start, going on to point out that the difficulties faced by the steel industry may be a portent of what will happen to other industries unless they, too, reassess both labor and management attitudes and make radical changes.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2604
Book Description