A profile of the steel industry : global reinvention for a new economy / Peter Warrian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warrian, Peter, author.

Series:

Industry profiles collection. 2331-0073

Industry profiles collection, 2331-0073

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steel industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 220 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 19, 2016).

ISBN:

9781631573842

1631573845

OCLC:

935736471