This study examines the development and implications of the wide continuous hot strip mill, a technological innovation that transformed the steel industry starting in the 1920s. It changed the profitability of companies, the number and skills of their employees, and the nature, scale, and location of their operations.
This study examines the development and implications of the wide continuous hot strip mill, a technological innovation that transformed the steel industry starting in the 1920s. It changed the profitability of companies, the number and skills of their employees, and the nature, scale, and location of their operations.
Introduction: Innovation and Continuous Rolling Mills Abbreviations Chapter 1: Foundations: The Sheet and Tin Plate Industries to the Late Nineteenth Century Chapter 2: Growth, Combination and Rationalization, 1898-1901 Chapter 3: Vandergrift Works Chapter 4: Expansion and Company Promotion, 1900-1920 Chapter 5: A Great Divide: The Sheet Trade in the 1920s Chapter 6: The Search for a Practicable Continuous Sheet Mill Chapter 7: The Wide Continuous Hot Strip Mill Chapter 8: Investment in Adverse Times: The Thirties Chapter 9: Contrasts in Development Planning: Policies in the Pittsburgh District and Opportunities and Initiatives in Michigan Chapter 10: Hand Mills, Continuous Mills, and Social Problems Chapter 11: World War Ii and the Postwar Boom Chapter 12: Corporate Policy after 1945 Chapter 13: The "Second Generation" Mills Chapter 14: Years of Difficulty: The 1970s and 1980s Chapter 15: EAF Steel and Compact Strip Mills Chapter 16: Into a New Millennium Appendix: The Old Sheet Steel Industry and Contrasting Perspectives on the Impact of the Strip Mill on Employment
Introduction: Innovation and Continuous Rolling Mills Abbreviations Chapter 1: Foundations: The Sheet and Tin Plate Industries to the Late Nineteenth Century Chapter 2: Growth, Combination and Rationalization, 1898-1901 Chapter 3: Vandergrift Works Chapter 4: Expansion and Company Promotion, 1900-1920 Chapter 5: A Great Divide: The Sheet Trade in the 1920s Chapter 6: The Search for a Practicable Continuous Sheet Mill Chapter 7: The Wide Continuous Hot Strip Mill Chapter 8: Investment in Adverse Times: The Thirties Chapter 9: Contrasts in Development Planning: Policies in the Pittsburgh District and Opportunities and Initiatives in Michigan Chapter 10: Hand Mills, Continuous Mills, and Social Problems Chapter 11: World War Ii and the Postwar Boom Chapter 12: Corporate Policy after 1945 Chapter 13: The "Second Generation" Mills Chapter 14: Years of Difficulty: The 1970s and 1980s Chapter 15: EAF Steel and Compact Strip Mills Chapter 16: Into a New Millennium Appendix: The Old Sheet Steel Industry and Contrasting Perspectives on the Impact of the Strip Mill on Employment
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