A profile of the steel industry : global reinvention for a new economy / Peter Warrian.

By: Warrian, Peter [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Industry profiles collectionPublisher: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2016Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (xviii, 220 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781631573842Subject(s): Steel industry and trade | steel | manufacturing | technology | trade | unionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 338.47669142 LOC classification: HD9510.5 | .W276 2016Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Steel basics -- 3. How steel companies operate -- 4. How the steel industry operates -- 5. Industry organization and competition -- 6. Steel labor relations -- 7. Steel trade flows and trade disputes -- 8. Outside market forces -- 9. Steel and technological change -- 10. Regulation -- 11. Challenges and opportunities -- 12. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract: The steel mill and the auto plant were the icons of the 20th-century industrial economy. By the early 21st century, many people viewed steel as Big, Ugly, and Gone to China. Not so. In manufacturing, The World Is Not Flat! The steel industry has continuously been forced to remake itself. This book describes those developments and dynamics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Steel basics -- 3. How steel companies operate -- 4. How the steel industry operates -- 5. Industry organization and competition -- 6. Steel labor relations -- 7. Steel trade flows and trade disputes -- 8. Outside market forces -- 9. Steel and technological change -- 10. Regulation -- 11. Challenges and opportunities -- 12. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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The steel mill and the auto plant were the icons of the 20th-century industrial economy. By the early 21st century, many people viewed steel as Big, Ugly, and Gone to China. Not so. In manufacturing, The World Is Not Flat! The steel industry has continuously been forced to remake itself. This book describes those developments and dynamics.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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