Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might

Reutter, Mark

ISBN 10: 0252072332 / ISBN 13: 9780252072338

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252072332
• ISBN 13: 9780252072338
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Making Steel chronicles the rise and fall of American steel by focusing on the fateful decisions made at the world's once largest steel mill at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Mark Reutter examines the business, production, and daily lives of workers as corporate leaders became more interested in their own security and enrichment than in employees, community, or innovative technology. This edition features 26 pages of photos, an author's preface, and a new chapter on the devastating effects of Bethlehem Steel's bankruptcy titled "The Discarded American Worker."
 

About the Author

Mark Reutter, has been a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and has published in The Wilson Quarterly, Barron's, and The Nation. He is currently a business and law editor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.