We live in a day of big corporations and the tendency seems to be to concentrate still more capital and manufacturing facilities. It is therefore important that we should know something of their activities, not only economic but social.
I believe that the United States Steel Corporation is one enterprise that endeavors always to live up fully to the responsibilities it must perforce assume to its employees and to the public, as well as to its stockholders. I believe that it has earned the title of “A Corporation With A Soul”. And, so believing, I have not hesitated to tell the story of United States Steel as I have learned it by years of personal observation and contact.
Arundel Cotter.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Prologue. The Man at the Helm | [3] | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | The Why and How of the Big Company | [6] |
| II. | The Birth of the Big Company | [22] |
| III. | Early History and Growth, 1901 to 1907 | [42] |
| IV. | The Tennessee Purchase | [70] |
| V. | Men Who Made United States Steel | [87] |
| VI. | Developing World Markets | [111] |
| VII. | The Spirit of the Corporation | [132] |
| VIII. | The Corporation’s Implements | [142] |
| IX. | The Steel Towns | [160] |
| X. | Humanizing Industry | [174] |
| XI. | Investigations and Dissolution Suit | [197] |
| XII. | Questions of Policy | [217] |
| XIII. | Steel from the Investor’s Viewpoint | [235] |
| XIV. | The Great Steel Strike | [246] |
| XV. | Helping Uncle Sam Win the War | [269] |
| XVI. | The Middle Period, 1907 to 1914 | [283] |
| XVII. | The War and After | [295] |
| Appendix | [308] | |