Description
• Choice 1988 Outstanding Academic Book
• Named probably the most Perfect Business Books of 1988 by USA Today
A veteran reporter of American labor analyzes the spectacular and tragic collapse of the steel industry within the 1980s. John Hoerr’s account of these events stretches from the industrywide barganing disasters of 1982 to the crippling work stoppage at USX (U.S. Steel) in 1986-87. He interviewed scores of steelworkers, company managers at all levels, and union officials, and used to be present at among the an important events he describes. The use of historical flashbacks to the origins of the steel industry, particularly within the Monongahela Valley of southwestern Pennsylvania, he shows how an obsolete and adversarial relationship between management and labor made it not possible for the industry to conform to shattering changes within the global economy.