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Elements Combined, A history of the Steel Company of Canada by William Kilbourn
Elements Combined, A history of the Steel Company of Canada by William Kilbourn
Hard cover
Copyright 1960
335 pages
Indexed
CONTENTS
ChapterPage
I The Beginnings in Montreal3
2 The Montreal Rolling Mills, 1868-191019
3 Iron and Industrial Change in Nineteenth-century Ontario33
4 Canada's Decade: Steel and Western Settlement 51
5 Stelco's Creation: The Merger of 191063
6 Launching the New Company, 1910-191479
7 Steel and the First World War97
8 The Twenties: A Steel Business in the Neotechnic Age113
9 The Great Depression: How Stelco Survived141
ro The Second World War: Steel and the Mobilized Economy159
II The Big Strike and After182
12 Change at Mid-century: Revolution in the Steel Industry207
Appendices
Principal Processes of the Steel Industry243
Glossary of Terms Used in the Steel Industry254
The Early History of Iron- and Steel-Making258
Developments in the Iron and Steel Industry267
Significant Events in Canadian History271
Documents Relative to the 1910 Merger27S
Directors and Presidents of The Steel Company
of Canada, Limited287
Growth Factors in the Steel Industry290
The Artist's Description of the Illustrations296
Statistical Charts299
Selected Bibliography307
Notes on the Text 315
Index 331
PREFACE
THIS IS THE BIOGRAPHY of a business. It is a story told for its own sake, and not primarily to fill a gap in scholarship or to document a point of view. A cdllective enterprise engaging the concern and the labour and the ambitions of several generations and many kinds of human beings is in itself well worth a civilized person's attention and understanding. Like the biography of a man, provided it is well and truly written, it needs no further apology.
In so far as I have succeeded in presenting a true picture of one particular business, however, it may afford useful knowledge about a number of subjects which have not been much explored in Canadian historical writing. I have attempted to show something of the changing character of men in business, of company structure and entrepreneurial policy, of industrial technology and working conditions, within the context of their social background and the various political and economic limitations and advantages that surrounded them. By means of a limited selection of images I have tried to evoke, however tenuously, a sense of the development of Canadian society over the past century or so, as seen from the viewpoint of a single industry and company.
Throughout the text and in the general note on growth in the steel industry, my own opinions and conclusions are as explicitly set forth as they could be without interfering with the narrative or attempting to build on too small a body of evidence. Certain areas of economic analysis of vital interest in any study of the steel business-productivity and locational theory, for example-are given cursory treatment here,
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