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ONLINE

Second edition

New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2016

1 online resource (xviii, 220 pages)

ISBN 9781631573842 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781631573835 paperback

Industry profiles collection, ISSN 2331-0073

Print version: ISBN 9781631573835

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.

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..

* manufacturing * steel * technology * trade * unions

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(OCoLC)939265157