Bethlehem Steel Builder and Arsenal of America

Name: Bethlehem Steel Builder and Arsenal of America
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ISBN: 9780822960676

ISBN-10: 0822960672

ISBN-13: 9780822960676

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kenneth Warren

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Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 12/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Preface


Introduction



The Bethlehem Iron Company, 1833-1899



The Early Years and the Decline of the Anthracite Iron Industry



The Establishment and Growth of Iron and Steel Making in Bethlehem



Failure in Commercial Steels, 1880-1899



Armaments and Ores



From a Struggling Plant to the Second Rank in Steel



Reorganizing and Redirecting Bethlehem Steel



War Materiel, Ships, and Commercial Products, 1904-1914



Wartime Activity, Expansion, and Mergers, 1914-1923



Bethlehem Steel in the 1920s Boom



Retrenchment, Reconstruction, and War, 1930-1945



Material Supplies, Growth, and Competition in the East, 1945-1957



Steel Making in the Far West and Midwest



Triumph, Crisis, and Collapse



Shipbuilding, Steel, and Labor in Bethlehem's Peak Years



Responding to Crises in the 1980s



Paring Away the Unviable



Hope and Hope Dashed: Trade and Rationalization during the 1990s



Into the Abyss


Epilogue: The Roots of Decline



Statistical Tables



Chairmen and Presidents of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 1904-2003


Notes


Bibliography


Index