Running Steel, Running America

by Stein, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780807824146
• ISBN10: 0807824143
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Using the steel industry to examine liberal policies and priorities after World War II, Stein shows that economic policy--not racial conflict--led to the feeble liberalism of the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi	(4)
Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	1	(6)
1 The Politics of Steel Fundamentalism: The Long 1950s	7	(30)
2 Birmingham Before and After King: Racial Change in Steel	37	(32)
3 The Strange Career of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Segregation of Racial and Economic Policies	69	(20)
4 Title VII in the Mills, Agencies, and Courts: Theories and Practices	89	(32)
5 Tales of Lackawanna and Sparrows Point: Implementing the Kerner Commission Report	121	(26)
6 Litigation Is Everything: The Nixon Years	147	(22)
7 The Limits of Fair Employment: The Consent Decrees and the Economic Crisis of the 1970s	169	(28)
8 U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policies in Steel: The Creation of Conflict, 1945-1974	197	(32)
9 The Locomotive Loses Power: Jimmy Carter's Industrial and Trade Policies	229	(24)
10 An Industrial Policy for Steel? The Decline of the Democratic Party	253	(20)
11 Steel Is Not So Fundamental: The Reagan Reconstruction and Contemporary America	273	(36)
Conclusion: Steel and the History of Postwar America	309	(16)
Notes	325	(64)
Index	389