Capital and Labor in American Copper, 1845-1990: Linkages between Product and Labor Markets.

Abstract

Part 1 The copper industry and its industrial relations: interactions of the product market and the labour market how about a road map? why another book? a synopsis of the issues joint wage-making after 1946. Part 2 Geography, geology and technology: geographic location geological characteristics of the American deposits a century of technological change. Part 3 Emergence of the copper industry: beginnings of the industry Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Anaconda Company American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) Kennecott Copper Corporation Phelps Dodge Corporation other prominent producers. Part 4 The copper market to the end of World War II: the demand for copper U.S. supply prices and competition. Part 5 The roots of copper industry unionism: industrial relations federation organization near oblivion reinvigoration communist infiltration. Part 6 Changing industry structure, 1946-1990: Anaconda Dennecott Phelps Dodge ASARCO Cyprus Minerals Magma and Newmont other companies. Part 7 The product market in the postwar era: the Korean period Vietnam to OPEC industry organization consumption trends supply trends production costs price trends. Part 8 Unionism, collective bargaining, and the labour market, 1946-1966: the problem of structure in nonferrous collective bargaining bargaining developments and relations. Part 9 Collective bargaining developments and negotiations, 1967-1990: the Great Strike negotiations and other developments collapse of the pattern system the turn of the decade. Part 10 The past as prologue and instruction: the industry and its product markets interaction of labour and product markets some lessons from the labour market the future of the copper industry.