1. The Politics of Steel Fundamentalism: The Long 1950s

2. Birmingham Before and After King: Racial Change in Steel

3. The Strange Career of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Segregation of Racial and Economic Policies

4. Title VII in the Mills, Agencies, and Courts: Theories and Practices

5. Tales of Lackawanna and Sparrows Point: Implementing the Kerner Commission Report

6. Litigation Is Everything: The Nixon Years

7. The Limits of Fair Employment: The Consent Decrees and the Economic Crisis of the 1970s

8. U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policies in Steel: The Creation of Conflict, 1945-1974

9. The Locomotive Loses Power: Jimmy Carter's Industrial and Trade Policies

10. An Industrial Policy for Steel? The Decline of the Democratic Party

11. Steel Is Not So Fundamental: The Reagan Reconstruction and Contemporary America

Conclusion: Steel and the History of Postwar America.