Basic Steel Research Articles

Production and quality of basic oxygen alloy steels

Production and quality of basic oxygen alloy steels

49th NOHC Conference Plant Visit … the Basic Oxygen Steel Plant of Wisconsin Steel Works

The above describes some of the progress made in modernizing the steelmaking facilities of the plant, and some of our operating experiences of the new basic oxygen furnace shop at Wisconsin Steel. With the completion of these operating facilities, we are certain that all grades of steel required by our customers can be produced in better quality and with greater flexibility than has been the case in the past.

The Dominant Firm and the Inverted Umbrella

WHEN United States Steel Corporation was founded in 1901, it contained plants producing a large share of the nation's output of basic steel and fabricated steel products. The share of output of steel ingots was sixty-six per cent in 1901. During the next two decades the firm's share of output fell gradually, reaching forty-six per cent in 1920 and forty-two per cent in 1925. Declines (usually of lesser magnitude) took place in the company's share of other products. These facts are not in serious dispute. The interpretation of the facts enjoys no such unanimity. Two rival hypotheses for the formation of the combine will be tested in this note.

Basic Oxygen Steel at Hoogovens

A short description of the layout and some of the problems encountered in the change over from 60- to 100-ton vessels, followed by an outline of operating practice. The problem of temperature control in very fast steelmaking processes is considered in detail.

Shorter Hours—In Theory and Practice

Buttressed by a resolution of the AFL-CIO, at its recent annual convention in December 1961, an increasing number of unions are likely in the near future to press hard for a reduction in hours. Indeed, this issue has already appeared in negotiations--for example, in the New York City local transit and building trades industries--and is likely to be among the major demands of the union in the forthcoming bargaining in basic steel. In principle at least, bargaining over this issue is complicated by the absence of a common standard for measuring the effects of changes in the length of the workweek. As the discussion in this article brings out, there are at least three conceptually different measures of the optimal workweek, depending on whether the frame of reference is the employer, the individual worker, or the economy as a whole. The author also discusses a rule by which a choice might be made among the different hours optima. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)

Shorter Hours -- In Theory and Practice

Buttressed by a resolution of the AFL-CIO, at its recent annual convention in December 1961, an increasing number of unions are likely in the near future to press hard for a reduction in hours. Indeed, this issue has already appeared in negotiations--for example, in the New York City local transit and building trades industries--and is likely to be among the major demands of the union in the forthcoming bargaining in basic steel. In principle at least, bargaining over this issue is complicated by the absence of a common standard for measuring the effects of changes in the length of the workweek. As the discussion in this article brings out, there are at least three conceptually different measures of the "optimal" workweek, depending on whether the frame of reference is the employer, the individual worker, or the economy as a whole. The author also discusses a rule by which a choice might be made among the different hours optima. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)

Great Lakes’ Basic Oxygen Furnaces—World’s Largest!

This article describes the design features of the 300-ton basic oxygen steel furnaces being constructed at Great Lakes Steel Corp.’s Detroit plant. Start up of the 2% million tons per year plant is scheduled for 1962.

Basic Oxygen Steelmaking in Colorado

A description of the first basic oxygen steel plant in the Rocky Mountain area, this article also includes operating data since start-up on the 11th of July.

Relative Corrosion Resistance Of Basic Oxygen Steel and Open-Hearth Steel

Abstract Tests were made in various corrosive environments to compare the corrosion resistance of open hearth steel with basic oxygen steel. Media in which the 40-day tests were run include sodium hydroxide plus sodium chloride, sodium chloride alone, steam, steam condensate, city water, potassium hydroxide, chlorine, perchloric acid and sulfuric acid. Results did not indicate any substantial differences in corrosion resistance of the two steels although basic oxygen steel may have a slight advantage for perchloric acid and chlorine exposure. 6.2.3

Book Review: Labor-Management Relations: Collective Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry, a Study of the Public Interest and the Role of Government

Book Review: Labor-Management Relations: Collective Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry, a Study of the Public Interest and the Role of Government

Collective Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry, A Study of the Public Interest and the Role of Government.

Collective Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry, A Study of the Public Interest and the Role of Government.

The Steel Industry Wage Structure. A Study of the Joint Union-Management Job Evaluation Program in the Basic Steel Industry.

Journal Article The Steel Industry Wage Structure. A Study of the Joint Union-Management Job Evaluation Program in the Basic Steel Industry Get access The Steel Industry Wage Structure.. A study of the joint union-management job evaluation program in the basic steel industry. By J. Stieber. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959 (London: Oxford University Press, 1960). Pp. xxiii + 380. 64s.) H. A. Clegg H. A. Clegg Nuffield College, Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 71, Issue 282, 1 June 1961, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/2228782 Published: 01 June 1961

Collective Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry. A Study of the Public Interest and the Role of Government. United States Department of Labor, January 1961. 317 pp.

Collective Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry. A Study of the Public Interest and the Role of Government. United States Department of Labor, January 1961. 317 pp.. Un article de la revue Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations (Volume 16, numéro 3, juillet 1961, p. 289-377) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Book Review: Labor Economics: The Steel Industry Wage Structure: A Study of the Joint Union-Management Job Evaluation Program in the Basic Steel Industry

Book Review: Labor Economics: The Steel Industry Wage Structure: A Study of the Joint Union-Management Job Evaluation Program in the Basic Steel Industry

The Steel Industry Wage Structure: A Study of the Joint Union-Management Job Evaluation Program in the Basic Steel Industry.

The Steel Industry Wage Structure: A Study of the Joint Union-Management Job Evaluation Program in the Basic Steel Industry.

The Steel Industry Wage Structure: A Study of the Joint Union-Management Job Evaluation Program in the Basic Steel Industry

The Steel Industry Wage Structure: A Study of the Joint Union-Management Job Evaluation Program in the Basic Steel Industry

The Geography of the Canadian Iron and Steel Industry

A GROWING interest in recent economic development in Canada prompts a study of the geography of the steel industry. The purpose of this paper is to relate the present distribution of the iron and steel industry to resources, markets, and other factors, and to comment on the possibilities of the establishment of new Canadian iron and steel centers in the future. Canada ranks tenth among steel producing countries of the world, with an output which just exceeded five million tons in 1957. Before World War II, basic steel shapes, such as rods, rails, bars, hot rolled plate, and wire products, dominated the industry. Now, special alloy steels, tin plate, pipe, and cold rolled strip (all sizes) are taking an increasing share of production. The history of the steel industry in Canada has been characterized mainly by a remarkably heavy dependence on American raw materials and by strong governmental support in the form of duties on various iron and steel products, thus affording the industry some protection against American and European producers.' Virtually all of the pig iron and at least 90 per cent of the steel ingots and

Occupational Wage Differentials in the Basic Steel Industry

Since 1947 a joint union-management job-evaluation program has governed occupational wage relationships in nearly all of the basic steel industry. It is widely believed that this program only formalized and refined underlying tendencies toward stability in skill differentials in this industry. This article presents contrary evidence to show that, prior to the introduction of the program, occupational earnings differentials in steel followed the general trend toward narrowing of the skilled-unskilled spread, and that relative stability in base-rate differentials has existed only since 1947. The relationship of the job-evaluation program to other factors contributing to this change in the direction of steel wage movements is also discussed. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)

Occupational Wage Differentials in the Basic Steel Industry

Occupational Wage Differentials in the Basic Steel Industry

Origin and elimination of hydrogen in basic open-hearth steels

The variation in hydrogen content of basic open-hearth steels during refining and the effect of changing from steam to air atomization were studied. The water content of the furnace atmosphere, the slag basicity, and the degree of oxidation of the slag-metal system largely control the hydrogen in the steel.