Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-316) and index.
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- 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.
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