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Iron Will (Hardcover)
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Iron Will (Hardcover)
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In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore,
1847--2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story
of Cleveland-Cliffs, the only surviving independent American iron
mining company, now known as Cliffs Natural Resources.
Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland-Cliffs played a major
role in the opening and development of the Lake Superior mining
district and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through Cleveland-Cliffs'
history, Reynolds and Dawson examine major transitions in the
history of the American iron and steel industry from the
perspective of an important raw materials supplier. Reynolds and
Dawson trace Cleveland-Cliffs' beginnings around 1850, its growth
under Samuel L. Mather and his son William G. Mather, its emergence
as an important player in the growing national iron ore market, and
its tribulations during the Great Depression. The authors explore
the company's fortunes after World War II, when Cleveland-Cliffs
developed technologies to tap into vast reserves of low-grade
Michigan iron ore and turned to joint ventures and strategic
partnerships to raise the capital needed to implement them. The
authors also explain how the company became the largest independent
producer of iron ore in the United States by purchasing the mining
interests of its bankrupt partners during the implosion of the
American steel industry in the late-twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries. Reynolds and Dawson detail
Cleveland-Cliffs' evolving efforts to deal with labor, from its
early mostly immigrant workforce to its ambitious program of
welfare capitalism in the early twentieth century to its struggles
with organized labor after World War II. Iron Will is a thorough,
well-organized history based on extensive archival research and
interviews with company personnel. This story will appeal to
scholars interested in industrial or mining history, business
historians, and those interested in Great Lakes and Michigan
history.
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