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     metals (studies)

This page supplements the note on metals sector acquisitions and disposals, highlighting literature on the metals industries.

It covers -

• overviews
• corporate histories

     overviews

For steel see in particular Duncan Burn's The Economic History of Steelmaking, 1867-1939: A Study in Competition (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 1961) and The Steel Industry, 1939-1959: A Study in Competition and Planning (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 1961), History of the British Steel Industry (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1962) by J. C. Carr & W. Taplin and The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry: Innovations, Institutions, and Industrial Change (London: Routledge 1999) by Anthony D'costa,.

     corporate histories

Studies of individual UK enterprises include Colvilles and the Scottish Steel Industry (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1979) by Peter Payne, History of British Steel (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1974) by John Vaizey, (1982). Accounting for British Steel: A Financial Analysis of the Failure of the British Steel Corporation 1967-80, And who Was to Blame (Aldershot: Gower 1982) by R.A. Bryer, T.J. Brignall, A.R. Maunders and Politics and Steel in Britain, 1967-1988: The Life and Times of the British Steel Corporation (Aldershot: Dartmouth 1990) by G.F. Dudley and J.J. Richardson.

For US Steel see Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001 (Pittsburgh: Uni of Pittsburgh Press 2001) and Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab (Pittsburgh: Uni of Pittsburgh Press 2007) by Kenneth Warren, ,

For Thyssen see Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 2005) by Jeffrey Fear, The Thyssen Art Macabre (London: Quartett 2007) by David Litchfield.

Works on Krupp include William Manchester's The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968 (New York: Little Brown 1968), Peter Blatty's The House of Krupp: The Steel Dynasty That Armed the Nazis (New York: Cooper Square Press 2001), the far more insightful Krupp, Der Aufstieg eines Industrieimperiums (Berlin: Siedler Verlag 2000) by Lothar Gall, Krupp im 20 Jahrhundert: Die Geschichte des Unternehmens vom Ersten Weltkrieg bis zur Gründung der Stiftung (Berlin: Siedler Verlag 2002) by Gall, Toni Pierenkemper et al. They are complemented by Krupp und die Hohenzollern in Dokumenten: Krupp-Korrespondenz mit Kaisern, Kabinettschefs un Ministern 1850-1918 (Frankfurt am Main: Akademische Verlags Athenaion 1970) by Willi Boelcke, Krupp und die Offentlichkeit im 19 Jahrhundert (Munich: Beck Verlag 2000) by Barbara Wolbring and Bilder von Krupp: Fotografie und Geschichte im Industriezeitalter (Munich: Beck 2000) edited Klaus Tenfelde.

For the Wendels see Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model (Cambridge: Belknap Press 2006) by Harold James, Pierre Fritsch's Les Wendel, Rois de l'Acier Français (Paris: Laffont 1976), Jean Jeanneny's more searching François de Wendel en République: l'argent et le pouvoir, 1914-1940 (Paris: Seuil 1976), The Wendel Family: 'Affectio Societatis': The Story of A French Industrial Dynasty (1704-1976) (Fontainebleau: INSEAD 1999) by Christine Blondel & Ludo Van der Heyden and La banque Seillière-Demachy: Une dynastie familiale au centre du négoce, de la finance et des arts 1798-1998 (Paris: éditions Perrin 1999) edited by Raymond Dartevelle. There is a brief profile in David Landes' Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses (New York: Viking 2006).

For Mittal see Cold Steel: Britain's Richest Man and the Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire (London: Little Brown) by Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey

For other metals see Competition in the Aluminium Industry 1945-58 (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1961) by Merton Peck, From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888-1986 (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 1988) by George Smith, White Gold: The Story of Alcoa of Australia (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin 1997) by Geoffrey Blainey, .

Works on mining include The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining (Carlton: Melbourne Uni Press 1983) by Geoffrey Blainey.

Items on Australian steelmasters include Geoffrey Blainey's The Steel Master: A Life of Essington Lewis (Carlton South: Melbourne Uni Press 1995), Donald Hoskins' The Ironmaster: The Life of Charles Hoskins, 1851-1926 (North Wollongong: Uni of Wollongong Press 1995).




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