Managing the Mills reconstructs the management culture of this industry and shows how it interacted with the economics of steelmaking to shape particular labor policies like the twelve-hour day, welfare capitalism and the use of spies in the workplace.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Andrew Carnegie and the Origins of the Nonunion Era Chapter 4 The Decline of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and the Rise of the Implied Contract Chapter 5 The Methods of Control: The Steel Industry Versus Unorganized Labor Chapter 6 A Kind Face on a Cold Policy: Welfare Capitalism in the Steel Industry Chapter 7 Reluctant Reform: The Eight-Hour Day and Employee Representation Chapter 8 Fighting Organized Labor Under the Iron and Steel Code, 1933-1935 Chapter 9 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee Versus U.S. Steel Chapter 10 The Little Steel Strike and Beyond Chapter 11 Conclusion Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author