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What is Happening to American Manufacturing?
Articles,
Facts, and News from Mark Reutter
- Will No. 4 be a Keeper? Mittal Rival Wins Trustee Approval to Buy Sparrows Point (3/21/08)
- Sparrows Point Sale Scuttled (12/20/07)
- Lifting the Mittal Curse: Sparrows Point to be Sold (8/9/07)
- Return to the Old Days: Mittal Steel's Effect on Domestic Steel Prices and Innovation (2/21/07)
- Monopoly Abuses Pinned to Mittal (3/28/07)
- Summary of Findings (4/24/06)
- Squeezing More Toothpaste out of the Tube (4/24/06)
- What They Said: A Timeline (4/24/06)
- The Strange Case of Weirton (4/25/06)
- Sparrows Point: Fresh Vision Needed (3/7/06)
- Foreign Takeovers Should Raise Alarms (4/8/05)
- Become a MS Irregular (4/24/06)
- Bear Hugs and Bankers: Behind the Arcelor Bid (4/24/06)
- Cast of Characters (4/24/06)
- Peace, Love, and Understanding: What Mittal Promises Europe (4/24/06)
Making Steel Updates (Wilbur Ross, ISG, and the Rise of Lakshmi Mittal):
- Morally Bankrupt (8/30/06)
- Malcolm Gladwell Strikes Out (8/24/06)
- Unlikely to Attend (9/23/05)
- Overview: Suits Gone Wild (9/05)
- How to Pocket $267 Million (updated 4/12/06)
- Who is the Man who Bought Sparrows Point? (9/05)
- What can be Done? (9/05)
- Katrina and Steel (9/05)
- Order Free Booklet
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Steve Miller, Delphi:
- Delphi, The Terminator, and the Misuse of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (updated 4/12/06)
- Workplace Tremors: How Chapter 11 is Demolishing Employee Expectations (10/23/05)
The Sago Accident and the Business of Coal:
- Ross Named Defendant in Sago Mine Lawsuits (11/17/06)
- Incestuous Dealings at Sago (11/17/06)
- Wilbur Ross Financed Sago Mine’s Owner Since 1998 (1/21/06)
- Feted by Yale (released 12/13/05)
- Coal Mining and Accidents in W.Va. (1/24/06)
Forerunners and Prophets (Victor Posner, Henry Kravis, and the "Greed is Good" Decade):
- The Granddaddy of Raiders: An Appraisal (2/15/02)
- When They Forgot the Nuts and Bolts (4/89, updated 5/8/06)
- Victor the Poseur (May 1990)
- America's Best-Paid Executive (June 1990)
- The Raider and the Coal Town (Summer 1991)
- From Fast Bucks to Fast Food (6/23/91)
- Holding On (June 1990)
Steelman Back Pages (Articles, Press Clippings, Reviews, etc.):
- Another Chapter in Long Saga (3/11/07)
- Writer Speaks for Beth Steel Workers When Others go Silent (2/22/05)
- “Wilbur Ross is Charlie Schwab Without the Charisma” (7/17/05)
- The Origins of De-Industrialization (9/4/05)
- Assessing the Costs of Management Failure (January 2006)
- Ken Iverson: In the Presence of Greatness (6/21/05)
- Break the Silence on Steel Sale (3/20/05)
- Is Mittal Acquisition Good for Indiana? (3/13/05)
- No Saviors of Steel (3/3/05)
- Sparrows Point During the Steel Age (2/10/05)
- Excerpts from Introduction of Making Steel (2004)
- Cuban Ore for American Rails (Fall 2004)
- Shadow of Steel’s Lost Empire (10/19/01)
- Race and Steel (March 2000)
- Sentimental Steelmaking (9/1/03)
- Mr. President, Tell Working People why the Country Doesn’t Work Anymore (8/13/95)
- Troubled Steel Series (April 27-29, 1992)
- Theater Piece is a History-Making Success (10/10/91)
- State Failed to Charge Bethlehem (8/27/78)
- Bethlehem Victim Was Twice Felled (10/25/78)
- The Invisible Risk (August 1980)
Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might:
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