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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Collapse of the Steel Industry, 1982 | |
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| The Mon Valley, 1987 | |
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| What This Book Is About | |
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| Union Drama in a Ballroom | |
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| The Procedures Obscured the Reality | |
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| The Union Movement Loses Momentum | |
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| Management's Strategic Failures | |
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| The Turning Point After World War II | |
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| Union Weakness in the Reagan Era | |
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| A Train Back East | |
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| Union-Busting Precedents | |
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| The Vulnerability of Unions in America | |
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| The Life and Style of Lloyd McBride | |
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| A Threatening Trend | |
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| Concession Bargaining Comes to Steel | |
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| Ed Ayoub's Productivity Concerns | |
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| Legalistic Language, Bountiful Benefits | |
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| On Strike in McKeesport | |
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| From Carnegie Steel to U.S. Steel | |
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| The Making of a Corporate Bureaucracy | |
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| Steel's Shortsighted Business Strategies | |
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| The 1940s and 1950s: Strikes and Strike Threats | |
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| Government Involvement in Wages and Prices | |
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| The No-Strike Agreement | |
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| Bruce Johnston: Labor Took Too Much | |
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| Quiet Talks on the ENA | |
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| A Mission to Linden Hall | |
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| Something of Importance in the Mon Valley | |
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| Pouring Oil on Troubled Steel | |
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| The Mon Valley Unemployed Committee | |
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| Views of the Rank and File | |
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| A Mechanism for Reform: LMPTs | |
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| Early Days on the Mon | |
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| Industry Equals Progress | |
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| The Immigrants Divided | |
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| Life in the Mill Towns | |
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| Politics McKeesport Style | |
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| The Effect of Social Environment | |
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| Growing Up in McKeesport: The Forties | |
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| The "Downside" Cycle: The UAW | |
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| The UAW-USW Rivalry | |
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| Auto Bargaining in 1982 | |
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| The 1982 Ford Contract | |
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| Failure at GM | |
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| Moving Toward Negotiations in Steel | |
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| The 1982 Recession Worsens | |
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| The BSIC Debates Reopening | |
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| A Communications Fizzle | |
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| How Industrywide Bargaining Started | |
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| The 1982 Talks Begin | |
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| The Failure of Round One | |
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| The Propaganda War | |
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| "Democracy" and Dissent in the USW | |
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| The Dissidents of 1982 | |
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| Mike Bilcsik, Idealist | |
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| SWOC and Labor-Management Cooperation | |
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| Murray's Ambivalence About Cooperation | |
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| Labor's Failed Bid for a Wartime Voice | |
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| Postwar Confrontations | |
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| The USW Turns Away from Cooperation | |
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| The Scalon Plan: A Beginning | |
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| Attempts to Reform the Bargaining Relationship | |
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| Management Proposes LMPT's in the 1980s | |
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| Demoralization | |
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| "Working" in the Mill, ca. 1950 | |
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| The Management Bureaucracy | |
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| "Scientific Management" | |
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| The Safety Program: A Numbers Game | |
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| Quantity Over Quality | |
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| Section 2B | |
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| Union Corruption | |
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| Atlantic City, September 1982 | |
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| Wage Cuts and Profit-Sharing | |
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| The Round Two Bargain | |
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| The BSIC Votes NO | |
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| The Reasons Why | |
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| The Aftermath | |
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| Bad News in 1983 | |
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| A Groundswell for Concessions | |
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| What the Rank and File Wanted | |
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| Odorcich's Odyssey | |
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| Odorcich Versus Johnston: A Deal Is Struck | |
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| The Last Industrywide Ratification | |
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| Results of the 1983 Settlement | |
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| The USW Gave Up More Than It Intended | |
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| The Minimum Wage Recovery | |
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| Decline of the Blue-Collar Worker | |
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| A Change in Leadership | |
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| Williams Versus McKee | |
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| The Making of a USW President | |
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| Roderick's Tough Leadership | |
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| The Worldwide Restructuring of Steel | |
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| Labor Reforms at J&L | |
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| Confrontations at U.S. Steel | |
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| Cutting People at U.S. Steel | |
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| The "Graham Revolution" | |
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| The 1984 Plant Shutdowns | |
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| Conclusion: Both Sides Failed | |
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| A Transition Period | |
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| New USW Policies | |
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| Trouble at Wheeling-Pittsburgh | |
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| A Unique Settlement at Wheeling-Pittsburgh | |
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| New Approaches I: National Steel | |
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| New Approaches II: Weirton Steel | |
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| The End of Coordinated Bargaining | |
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| Winding Down at McKeesport and Aliquippa | |
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| Union-Management Efforts to Save LTV | |
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| Developing a Strategy for 1986 | |
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| Creating a "Level Playing Field" | |
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| A U.S. Steel Initiative | |
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| A New Kind of Bargaining at LTV | |
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| An Innovative Agreement at National Steel | |
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| Settlements at Bethlehem, Inland, and Armco | |
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| Epilogue: LTV and the Steel Pension Crisis | |
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| The "Crisis in Steel" Campaign | |
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| Trouble in the Metal Industries | |
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| U.S. Steel: Round One | |
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| The Impact of the LTV Bankruptcy | |
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| Going on Strike ... or Lockout | |
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| The UC Decisions | |
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| Lasting It Out | |
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| The Icahn Takeover Bid | |
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| USX: Round Two | |
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| USX: Round Three | |
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| The 1987 USX Settlement | |
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| The Final Blow | |
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| A Concluding Note | |
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| The Once and Future Valley | |
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| The Human Price | |
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| Mon Valley Fragmentation Revisited | |
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| Activism: Service and Protest | |
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| Campaigns to Save Plants | |
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| The Post-Manufacturing Era in Pittsburgh | |
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| How Mature Industries Impede New Businesses | |
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| The Mon Valley in Retrospect | |
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| A Great Industrial Failure | |
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| Relating Wages to Productivity | |
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| "The Road Not Taken" | |
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| Beginnings of a New Industrial Relations System | |
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| Issues for Unions | |
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| A Note on Sources | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| Map of the Pittsburgh region | |
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| Map of steel works in the Monongahela Valley, 1987 | |