And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry
• Choice 1988 Outstanding Academic Book\ • Named one of the Best Business Books of 1988 by USA Today\ A veteran reporter of American labor analyzes the spectacular and tragic collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s. John Hoerr’s account of these events stretches from the industrywide barganing failures of 1982 to the crippling work stoppage at USX (U.S. Steel) in 1986-87. He interviewed scores of steelworkers, company managers at all levels, and union officials, and was...
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A veteran reporter on American labor, John P. Hoerr analyzes the spectacular and tragic collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s. And the Wolf Finally Came demonstrates how an obsolete and adversarial relationship between management and labor made it impossible for the industry to adapt to a rapidly changing global economy. USA Today - Lacy Hunt [Hoerr's] history has far—reaching implications. It's a base from which to draw broad conclusions about labor management relations and the future of unions.
ForewordxiAcknowledgmentsxiiiChapter 11Collapse of the Steel Industry, 1982The Mon Valley, 1987What This Book Is AboutUnion Drama in a BallroomThe Procedures Obscured the RealityChapter 224The Union Movement Loses MomentumManagement's Strategic FailuresThe Turning Point After World War IIUnion Weakness in the Reagan EraA Train Back EastUnion-Busting PrecedentsThe Vulnerability of Unions in AmericaChapter 352The Life and Style of Lloyd McBrideA Threatening TrendConcession Bargaining Comes to SteelEd Ayoub's Productivity ConcernsLegalistic Language, Bountiful BenefitsChapter 482On Strike in McKeesportFrom Carnegie Steel to U.S. SteelThe Making of a Corporate BureaucracySteel's Shortsighted Business StrategiesThe 1940s and 1950s: Strikes and Strike ThreatsGovernment Involvement in Wages and PricesChapter 5109The No-Strike AgreementBruce Johnston: Labor Took Too MuchQuiet Talks on the ENAA Mission to Linden HallChapter 6134Something of Importance in the Mon ValleyPouring Oil on Troubled SteelThe Mon Valley Unemployed CommitteeViews of the Rank and FileA Mechanism for Reform: LMPTsChapter 7162Early Days on the MonIndustry Equals ProgressThe Immigrants DividedLife in the Mill TownsPolitics McKeesport StyleThe Effect of Social EnvironmentGrowing Up in McKeesport: The FortiesChapter 8194The "Downside" Cycle: The UAWThe UAW-USW RivalryAuto Bargaining in 1982The 1982 Ford ContractFailure at GMMoving Toward Negotiations in SteelChapter 9215The 1982 Recession WorsensThe BSIC Debates ReopeningA Communications FizzleHow Industrywide Bargaining StartedChapter 10236The 1982 Talks BeginThe Failure of Round OneThe Propaganda War"Democracy" and Dissent in the USWThe Dissidents of 1982Chapter 11261Mike Bilcsik, IdealistSWOC and Labor-Management CooperationMurray's Ambivalence About CooperationLabor's Failed Bid for a Wartime VoicePostwar ConfrontationsThe USW Turns Away from CooperationThe Scalon Plan: A BeginningAttempts to Reform the Bargaining RelationshipManagement Proposes LMPT's in the 1980sChapter 12296Demoralization"Working" in the Mill, ca. 1950The Management Bureaucracy"Scientific Management"The Safety Program: A Numbers GameQuantity Over QualitySection 2BUnion CorruptionChapter 13333Atlantic City, September 1982Wage Cuts and Profit-SharingThe Round Two BargainThe BSIC Votes NOThe Reasons WhyThe AftermathChapter 14361Bad News in 1983A Groundswell for ConcessionsWhat the Rank and File WantedOdorcich's OdysseyOdorcich Versus Johnston: A Deal Is StruckThe Last Industrywide RatificationResults of the 1983 SettlementThe USW Gave Up More Than It IntendedChapter 15390The Minimum Wage RecoveryDecline of the Blue-Collar WorkerA Change in LeadershipWilliams Versus McKeeThe Making of a USW PresidentChapter 16415Roderick's Tough LeadershipThe Worldwide Restructuring of SteelLabor Reforms at J&LConfrontations at U.S. SteelCutting People at U.S. SteelThe "Graham Revolution"The 1984 Plant ShutdownsConclusion: Both Sides FailedChapter 17447A Transition PeriodNew USW PoliciesTrouble at Wheeling-PittsburghA Unique Settlement at Wheeling-PittsburghNew Approaches I: National SteelNew Approaches II: Weirton SteelThe End of Coordinated BargainingChapter 18477Winding Down at McKeesport and AliquippaUnion-Management Efforts to Save LTVDeveloping a Strategy for 1986Creating a "Level Playing Field"A U.S. Steel InitiativeA New Kind of Bargaining at LTVAn Innovative Agreement at National SteelSettlements at Bethlehem, Inland, and ArmcoEpilogue: LTV and the Steel Pension CrisisChapter 19513The "Crisis in Steel" CampaignTrouble in the Metal IndustriesU.S. Steel: Round OneThe Impact of the LTV BankruptcyGoing on Strike ... or LockoutThe UC DecisionsLasting It OutChapter 20539The Icahn Takeover BidUSX: Round TwoUSX: Round ThreeThe 1987 USX SettlementThe Final BlowA Concluding NoteChapter 21567The Once and Future ValleyThe Human PriceMon Valley Fragmentation RevisitedActivism: Service and ProtestCampaigns to Save PlantsChapter 22589The Post-Manufacturing Era in PittsburghHow Mature Industries Impede New BusinessesThe Mon Valley in RetrospectChapter 23605A Great Industrial FailureRelating Wages to Productivity"The Road Not Taken"Beginnings of a New Industrial Relations SystemIssues for UnionsA Note on Sources623Notes627Index681Map of the Pittsburgh regionMap of steel works in the Monongahela Valley, 1987
\ Donald L. MillerA deeply moving account…of the most spectacular industrial collapse of modern times.\ —Philadelphia Inquirer\ \ \ \ \ Jonathan KirschIf you really want to know what succeeds in sales and the American way of doing business, put down Lee Iacocca's Talking Straight and Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal and pick up a copy of John P. Hoerr's And the Wolf Finally Came.\ —Los Angeles Times Book Review\ \ \ Lacy Hunt[Hoerr's] history has far—reaching implications. It's a base from which to draw broad conclusions about labor management relations and the future of unions.\ —USA Today\ \
