Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America
In the late 19th century, rails from Bethlehem Steel helped build the United States into the world's foremost economy. During the 1890s, Bethlehem became America's leading supplier of heavy armaments, and by 1914, it had pioneered new methods of structural steel manufacture that transformed urban skylines. Demand for its war materials during World War I provided the finance for Bethlehem to become the world's second-largest steel maker. As late as 1974, the company achieved record earnings of...
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Bethlehem Steel presents an original and compelling history of a leading American company, examining the numerous factors contributing to the growth of this titan and those that eventually felled it—along with many of its competitors in the U.S. steel industry.
List of Figures and TablesPt. I The Bethlehem Iron Company, 1857-18991 The Early Years and the Decline of the Anthracite Iron Industry 32 The Establishment and Growth of Iron and Steel Making in Bethlehem 153 Failure in Commercial Steels, 1880-1899 324 Armaments and Ores 43Pt. II From a Struggling Plant to the Second Rank in Steel5 Reorganizing and Redirecting Bethlehem Steel 676 War Materiel, Ships, and Commercial Products, 1904-1914 847 Wartime Activity, Expansion, and Mergers, 1914-1923 1028 Bethlehem Steel in the 1920s Boom 1169 Retrenchment, Reconstruction, and War, 1930-1945 13210 Material Supplies, Growth, and Competition in the East, 1945-1957 15011 Steel Making in the Far West and Midwest 165Pt. III Triumph, Crisis, and Collapse12 Shipbuilding, Steel, and Labor in Bethlehem's Peak Years 18113 Responding to Crises in the 1980s 21014 Paring Away the Unviable 22915 Hope and Hope Dashed: Trade and Rationalization during the 1990s 24516 Into the Abyss 259Epilogue: The Roots of Decline 271App. A Statistical Tables 275App. B Chairmen and Presidents of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 1904-2003 286Notes 287Bibliography 311Index 317
\ From the Publisher“[Warren’s] research is impressive … students of industrial history will find Bethlehem Steel a revealing and timely work, defining challenges that all sorts of companies face today, across the U.S. and around the world.”\ —The Wall Street Journal \ “Bethlehem Steel is the definitive historical analysis of the late Bethlehem Steel Corporation. . . . this volume traces the origins, rise, decline, and eventual fall of one of this nation’s iconic business organizations. . . . well written and superbly researched.”\ —Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography\ “The corporate biography of this icon of US industrial history is worthy of examination by history and business students and scholars. Highly recommended.” \ —Choice\ \ \
