| Description |
xxxiv, 554 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of charts -- List of tables -- List of photographs -- Editor's preface -- Author's preface -- Note on the corporate name -- 1. Invention and entrepreneurship: the electrolytic process and the establishment of The Pittsburgh Reduction Company -- 2. Alcoa in context: the rise of the complex corporation -- 3. Building a big business: markets, strategy, and structure through the First World War -- 4. Alcoa comes of age: organization, innovation, and labor from the Roaring 20s through the Great Depression -- 5. Undoing the monopoly: the Second World War and Learned Hand -- 6. Alcoa's 'splendid retreat': the rise of the aluminium oligopoly, 1947-1957 -- 7. Magee, Close, and Harper: covering the world in aluminium, 1958-1970 -- 8. Responses to a changing world -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index |
| Analysis |
United States Aluminium industries Zlcoa history |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 473-530 |
| Subject |
Aluminum Company of America -- History.
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Aluminum Company of America.
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Aluminum industry and trade -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
88017049 |
| ISBN |
0521352614 |
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