Century of American Steel The Strip Mill and the Transformation of an Industry

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