Portraits in steel
Subtitle: an illustrated history of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
By: David H. Wollman and Donald R. Inman.
Contributors: Inman, Donald R., 1940-
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation -- History.; Steel industry and trade -- United States -- History.; Iron industry and trade -- United States -- History.
Description: "This history of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation paints a gritty portrait of the successes and failures of the American steel industry as a whole, and J&L Steel in particular. From the beginning, its workers were intensely loyal and creative.

The 131-year life of this "American Business" is presented from its origins as one of the many struggling ironmakers in the mid-19th century through its leadership in technological innovation and progressive worker/management relations in the early 20th century to its demise in 1984."--BOOK JACKET.

"Portraits in Steel is the authors' effort to help explain and to save something of the heritage of a once-vital company and to portray its wide-ranging impact on the local and national community."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-323) and index.