The restructuring of the US steel industry: changes in the location of production and employment

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Abstract

Recent reorganization of the US iron and steel industry provides a useful setting for an analysis of the relationship between industrial location and institutional forms. Regression analysis shows that institutional shifts in the organization of production dominated geographical shifts in employment and product value as integrated maxi-mills sought to raise productivity. Maxi-mills are concentrating investment and production in the Midwest states as their joint ventures with Japanese steel firms specialize in the mass production of galvanized sheets for the automoboile industry. Locational shifts also include the national spread of scrap-processing mini-mills and the rapid decline of raw-steel production in Pittsburgh as maxi-mills close furnaces and mills producing construction-grade bars and rods. -from Author

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEnvironment & Planning A
Pages1339-1359
Number of pages21
Volume25
Edition9
StatePublished - 1993

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Environmental Science

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