The Iron and Steel Industry in the United States.

1932 ◽  
Vol 42 (166) ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
H. W. Macrosty ◽  
E. D. McCallum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Iron And Steel Industry ◽  
Iron And Steel

Progress in Iron and Steel: 1870–1913

1961 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Orsagh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Iron And Steel Industry ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
The United Kingdom

At the beginning of the period 1870–1913 the United Kingdom was the acknowledged leader in the iron and steel industry; at its end she was in some sense or other a third-rate iron and steel producer, surpassed by the United States and Germany. The first section of this paper will formulate definitions of “loss of leadership” which are statistically verifiable and economically significant, and will determine whether or not, for a given sense of the term, it is true that the United Kingdom fell behind the other countries. The second section considers some of the factors which led to the U. K.'s “loss of leadership”.

Rulers of the Ruhr: Leadership and Authority in German Big Business Before 1914

1979 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Glovka Spencer
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
Iron And Steel Industry ◽  
World War ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
The Social

The rise of heavy industry and its managerial elite in the German Empire and in the United States provides stimuhting parallels and contrasts. Professor Spencer discusses the social constraints under which a professional management class developed in the German coal, iron, and steel industry during the generation before World War I. Ranking distinctly below the landed aristocracy and the governmental bureaucracy (both of which they would gladly have emulated), and preoccupied with the maintenance of order in the midst of rapid economic and social change, German managers used their power and influence to sustain and manipulate existing systems of authority, and came to play no broader role in the development of their commonwealth than did their American counterparts.

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