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This book provides a basic guide to the iron and steel industry in a single convenient reference source. The origins of steel and its manufacture are explained first, with a basic outline of the principal steel grades. The author then goes on to look at production and consumption and its commercial significance. He also analyses the global trade in steel and shows its importance to the metals industry as alloying elements and coatings. The final section considers the future for steel, the changing trade patterns, environmental issues and the threat of substitutes to the industry

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Tough Industry -- 3 Prices, Preferences, and Strategy -- 4 Trading Steel -- 5 Survival -- 6 Steel in a Global Perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Introduction -- Issues facing the steel industry -- Policy problems -- Excess steel in the world -- Supply glut in India -- Producers and their product mix -- Who to promote, the integrated mills or electric furnaces? -- The demand failure of steel in India -- The myth of the s curve -- Metallic balance of steel -- Bad loans of steel companies -- Technologies for making steel -- The cost of steel -- The price of steel -- Profits from steel -- Management of over capacity of steel -- Steel trade of India -- Summary of arguments -- Conclusion.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. State and Steel in Western Europe -- The European Iron and Steel Industry and the World Crisis -- The Politics of Transatlantic Steel Trade -- Community Policies on Steel 1974-1982: A Case of Collective Management -- Decision-Making Processes in the Steel Crisis Policy of the EEC: Neocorporatist or Integrationist Tendencies? -- Steel Policy in the U.K.: The Politics of Industrial Decline -- The Implementation of Britain's National Steel Strategy at the Local Level -- The Politics of Public Sector Steel in Italy: From the 'Economic Miracle' to the Crisis of the Eighties -- Nuova Italsider-Taranto and the Steel Crisis: Problems, Innovations and Prospects -- The Nemesis of Industrial Patriotism: The French Response to the Steel Crisis -- The Local Implementation of France's National Strategy -- Longwy and Bagnoli: A Comparative Study of Trade Union Response to the Steel Crisis in France and Italy -- Overcoming the Steel Crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany 1974-1983 -- The State, the Regions and Industrial Redevelopment: The Challenge of the Belgian Steel Crisis -- Author's Biographical Sketches -- Index.