Big Steel : The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-2001

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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction. Preeminent Size: The Economies and Diseconomies of Scale; Part One. 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 Mill7. The Interlude of World War I; 8. Labor Conditions and Relations during the Gary Years; Part Two. 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 MarketPart Three. 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; Part Four. 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 197021. 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; Appendix A. StatisticalTables; Appendix B. Chief Officers of US Steel; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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