Download or read book The Steel Crisis written by William Scheuerman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-07-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the causes underlying the decline of the United States steel industry and the impact of that decline on our institutions of procedural democracy. It locates steel's economic demise in the logic of an economy organized for profit maximization and demonstrates how the industry's economic policies helped open the U.S. market to foreign imports while simultaneously forcing steel officials to turn to the government for assistance.