Contents
List of Maps and Diagrams
Abbreviations
1. Location of Heavy Industry
2. American Iron Production to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
3. The Westward Movement of the Iron Trade
4. Iron Production beyond the Manufacturing Belt
5. The Rail Trade
6. The Locational Implications of Changes in Raw Materials, Techniques, and
Economic Organization 1890-1920
7. Varying Patterns of Development 1890-1920. I. Pittsburgh and Chicago
8. Varying Patterns of Development 1890-1920. II. Decline and Revival in
East
9. Varying Patterns of DeVelopment 1890-1920. III. Steel-making along the Lake
Erie Shore and in the Valleys District
10. The Structural Steel Trade
11. Steel-making in the South
12. The Interwar Years. I. Pricing Policies and the Changing Balance of Locational
Advantage
13. The Interwar Years. II. Sheet Steel and the Establishment of New Steel Centres
14. The Interwar Years. III. The West
15. Second World War Steel Extensions
16. The Postwar Steel Industry. I. Materials, Technology, and Markets
17. The Postwar Steel Industry. II. Districts beyond the Manufacturing Belt
18. The Postwar Steel Industry. III. The Manufacturing Belt: General
Considerations and the Ohio Basin
19. The Postwar Steel Industry. IV. The Manufacturing Belt: The Lake Shore
Centres
20. The Postwar Steel Industry. V. The Manufacturing Belt: The East
Epilogue: The United States and World Steel
Index