Kenneth Warren
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"In Bethlehem Steel, Kenneth Warren considers Bethlehem Steel's investment failures, indecision, and delay in choosing to abandon or restructure outdated "integrated" plants - all factors that plagued what had become an insular, inward-looking management group. Meanwhile, competition increased from more economical "mini mills" at home and from new, technologically superior plants overseas, which drove world prices down, causing huge flows of imported...
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Best remembered today for his fierce opposition to labor, especially during the Homestead Strike of 1892, Henry Clay Frick was also one of the most powerful and innovative industrialists of the nineteenth century. Kenneth Warren is the first historian to be given unrestricted access to the extensive Frick archives in Pittsburgh. Drawing on Frick's personal and business papers, as well as the records of the H.C. Frick Coal & Coke Company, the Carnegie...
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Ralph Ellison and the Cultural Turn in Black Politics2. Race, Literature, and the Politics of Numbers, or Not Quite a Million Men Marching3. Of Southern Strategies4. To Move without Moving: Reconstructing the Fictions of SociologyConclusion: Invisible Man at FiftyNotesIndex.