American Industrial Conditions and Competition: Reports of the Commissioners Appointed by the British Iron Trade Association, to Enquire Into the Iron, Steel, and Allied Industries of the United States

British Iron Trade Association

British Iron Trade Association, 1902 - Industrial organization - 590 pages

Contents

• GENERAL REPORT ON AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL: 1
• Raw Materials: 17
• The Coking Resources and Output of the Southern States: 26
• Ore Supplies of United States Steel Corporation: 34
• Associations of Employers in the United States: 38
• Conditions and Extent of Output: 40
• Southern Iron Ores: 46
• Mineral Royalties in the United States: 48
• 8: 53
• The Labour Conditions of the United: 54
• The Morale of American Workmen: 60
• The Apprentice System: 67
• Organisation and Administration: 74
• American Railway Rates for the Transport of Mineral and Iron: 87
• A Railroad Transportation: 88
• 29: 105
• River Transportation ΠΟ: 110
• N N N N: 112
• Existing Pittsburg Conditions: 117
• The Manufacture and Treatment: 124
• B The Manufacture of Plates: 134
• The Manufacture of Structural Steel and Bridge Work: 146
• The Manufacture of Tubes: 154
• 44: 157
• F Wire Rods Wire and Wire Nails: 165
• H The Manufacture of Forgings and War Material: 175
• 46: 195
• The Basic Steel Industry: 197
• Some Features of American Engineering: 204
• 47: 205
• wwww88: 222
• 204: 225
• Some Differences of Importance: 231
• The Manufacture of Steel Castings: 239
• The Works of the Westinghouse Electrical Manufacturing Company: 247
• American Shipbuilding: 250
• 338: 254
• 32: 255
• Some Economic Problems: 261
• Essen: 267
• Principles and Profits: 276
• 340: 280
• The New York Merchants Association: 282
• The Profits of American Iron and Steel Works: 298
• 38: 299
• Some Final Facts and Considerations: 316
• Amended Certificate of Incorporation of United States Steel: 384
• XXIIByLaws of United States Steel Corporation: 390
• PRODUCTION OF COKE AND ANTHRACITE: 399
• Transportation Systems and Conditions: 403
• Pumping Plant: 459
• Handling of the Products of the Furnace: 467
• Flue Dust: 476
• Chapter IX: 483
• Description of Some American Furnace Plants Visited: 486
• Chapter XI: 497
• Chapter XII: 506
• Notes on Methods of Working: 512
• The Rolling of Billets: 520
• The Rolling Furnace: 528
• The Monell Process: 534
• Conditions of Labour: 541
• ON THE BAR AND SHEET INDUSTRIES AND: 565
• VandergriftA Model Town: 572
• Technical and Commercial Education: 580
• 235: 587

Bibliographic information

• Title: American Industrial Conditions and Competition: Reports of the Commissioners Appointed by the British Iron Trade Association, to Enquire Into the Iron, Steel, and Allied Industries of the United States
• Author: British Iron Trade Association
• Editor: James Stephen Jeans
• Publisher: British Iron Trade Association, 1902
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Dec 11, 2008
• Length: 590 pages