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And the wolf finally came : the decline of the American steel industry / John P. Hoerr.

HD9517.M85 H64 1988

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Hoerr, John P., 1930-
Series:: Pittsburgh series in social and labor history; Pittsburgh series in social and labor history.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Steel industry and trade--Monongahela River Region (W.Va. and Pa.).; Steel industry and trade.; Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania.; Steel industry and trade--West Virginia.; Iron and steel workers--Monongahela River Region (W.Va. and Pa.).; Iron and steel workers.; Iron and steel workers--Pennsylvania.; Iron and steel workers--West Virginia.; Collective bargaining--Monongahela River Region (W.Va. and Pa.).; Collective bargaining.; Collective bargaining--Pennsylvania.; Collective bargaining--West Virginia.; West Virginia.; Pennsylvania.
Physical Description:: xiv, 689 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1988]
Summary:: A veteran reporter on American labor, John P. Hoerr analyzes the spectacular and tragic collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s. "And the Wolf Finally Came" demonstrates how an obsolete and adversarial relationship between management and labor made it impossible for the industry to adapt to a rapidly changing global economy.
Contents:: Collapse of the Steel Industry, 1982; The Mon Valley, 1987; What This Book Is About; Union Drama in a Ballroom; The Procedures Obscured the Reality; The Union Movement Loses Momentum; Management's Strategic Failures; The Turning Point After World War II; Union Weakness in the Reagan Era; A Train Back East; Union-Busting Precedents; The Vulnerability of Unions in America; The Life and Style of Lloyd McBride; A Threatening Trend; Concession Bargaining Comes to Steel; Ed Ayoub's Productivity Concerns; Legalistic Language, Bountiful Benefits; On Strike in McKeesport; From Carnegie Steel to U.S. Steel; The Making of a Corporate Bureaucracy; Steel's Shortsighted Business Strategies; The 1940s and 1950s: Strikes and Strike Threats; Government Involvement in Wages and Prices; The No-Strike Agreement; Bruce Johnston: Labor Took Too Much; Quiet Talks on the ENA; A Mission to Linden Hall; Something of Importance in the Mon Valley; Pouring Oil on Troubled Steel; The Mon Valley Unemployed Committee; Views of the Rank and File; A Mechanism for Reform: LMPTs; Early Days on the Mon; Industry Equals Progress; The Immigrants Divided; Life in the Mill Towns; Politics McKeesport Style; The Effect of Social Environment; Growing Up in McKeesport: The Forties; The "Downside" Cycle: The UAW; The UAW-USW Rivalry; Auto Bargaining in 1982; The 1982 Ford Contract; Failure at GM; Moving Toward Negotiations in Steel; The 1982 Recession Worsens; The BSIC Debates Reopening; A Communications Fizzle; How Industrywide Bargaining Started; The 1982 Talks Begin; The Failure of Round One; The Propaganda War; "Democracy" and Dissent in the USW; The Dissidents of 1982; Mike Bilcsik, Idealist; SWOC and Labor-Management Cooperation; Murray's Ambivalence About Cooperation; Labor's Failed Bid for a Wartime Voice; Postwar Confrontations; The USW Turns Away from Cooperation; The Scalon Plan: A Beginning; Attempts to Reform the Bargaining Relationship; Management Proposes LMPT's in the 1980s; Demoralization; "Working" in the Mill, ca. 1950; The Management Bureaucracy; "Scientific Management"; The Safety Program: A Numbers Game; Quantity Over Quality; Section 2B; Union Corruption; Atlantic City, September 1982; Wage Cuts and Profit-Sharing; The Round Two Bargain; The BSIC Votes NO; The Reasons Why; The Aftermath; Bad News in 1983; A Groundswell for Concessions; What the Rank and File Wanted; Odorcich's Odyssey; Odorcich Versus Johnston: A Deal Is Struck; The Last Industrywide Ratification; Results of the 1983 Settlement; The USW Gave Up More Than It Intended; The Minimum Wage Recovery; Decline of the Blue-Collar Worker; A Change in Leadership; Williams Versus McKee; The Making of a USW President; Roderick's Tough Leadership; The Worldwide Restructuring of Steel; Labor Reforms at J&L; Confrontations at U.S. Steel; Cutting People at U.S. Steel; The "Graham Revolution"; The 1984 Plant Shutdowns; Conclusion: Both Sides Failed; A Transition Period; New USW Policies; Trouble at Wheeling-Pittsburgh; A Unique Settlement at Wheeling-Pittsburgh; New Approaches I: National Steel; New Approaches II: Weirton Steel; The End of Coordinated Bargaining; Winding Down at McKeesport and Aliquippa; Union-Management Efforts to Save LTV; Developing a Strategy for 1986; Creating a "Level Playing Field"; A U.S. Steel Initiative; A New Kind of Bargaining at LTV; An Innovative Agreement at National Steel; Settlements at Bethlehem, Inland, and Armco; Epilogue: LTV and the Steel Pension Crisis; The "Crisis in Steel" Campaign; Trouble in the Metal Industries; U.S. Steel: Round One; The Impact of the LTV Bankruptcy; Going on Strike ... or Lockout; The UC Decisions; Lasting It Out; The Icahn Takeover Bid; USX: Round Two; USX: Round Three; The 1987 USX Settlement; The Final Blow; The Once and Future Valley; The Human Price; Mon Valley Fragmentation Revisited; Activism: Service and Protest; Campaigns to Save Plants; The Post-Manufacturing Era in Pittsburgh; How Mature Industries Impede New Businesses; The Mon Valley in Retrospect; A Great Industrial Failure; Relating Wages to Productivity; "The Road Not Taken"; Beginnings of a New Industrial Relations System; Issues for Unions; Map of the Pittsburgh region; Map of steel works in the Monongahela Valley, 1987.
Notes:: Includes index.; Bibliography: pages 623-680.
ISBN:: 0822935724; 0822953986
OCLC:: 16756847

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