China's Energy Strategy: Economic Structure, Technological Choices, and Energy Consumption.
Despite some minor flaws and shortcomings, including an irritating overthoroughness that provides summaries of the summaries, this is an extremely useful and interesting book and will be required reading for anyone interested in how the Chinese economy uses energy, which presumably includes anyone concerned with greenhouse gases and global warming....

Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. (Reviews).
Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. By Howell John Harris (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii plus 456pp. $44.95). Howell John Harris is a Reader in History at the University of Durham, England, who...

The air of Ostrava.
In 1991 a group from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency traveled to the city of Ostrava in what was then Czechoslovakia. They looked at the grimy streets and sky and thought: Pittsburgh, 1940s. The association is easily made. Ostrava represents a mighty union of coal mines, coke ovens, iron smelters,...

Sales Talk; World's biggest recycling operation revolves around melting scrap materials.
Byline: Arthur S. Sales Because it is much cheaper melting scrap metal than mining, extracting and processing ore, a new lucrative recycling industry, probably the biggest and heaviest in the world at present, is drawing droves of scrap hunters, scavengers and thieves from Asia to as far...

Letters in the Editor's Mailbag.
Byline: The Register-Guard U.S. consumers are responsible Bush bashers send a lot more letters to Mailbag than supporters of our very good president, even though polls show strong support for Bush. The main causes of high unemployment are losses of the strong manufacturing...

Is the United States the world's dumping ground for steel? Recent influxes in steel imports in the United States, the effects, and the possible remedies.
I. INTRODUCTION Due to the repercussions from the tragic events of September 11, 2001, it is even more imperative that the general public be made aware of the current U.S. steel crisis. The economic devastation suffered in the United States resulting from the tragedy could be ameliorated...

China iron ore ocean shipping surges sharply.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 15 (Reuters) -- Ocean shipments of iron ore to China are expected to surge to 650 million tons in 2010, a researcher at a state think-tank said, up from an estimate of nearly 400 million tons this year as China's steel industry booms. Yin Zhen,...

Least Noticed. Most Important.
Least Noticed. Most Important. By Greg Deming, sales manager for ThyssenKrupp Airport Systems Locomotives, trucks, agricultural machinery and excavators...why not boarding bridges? For the average traveler, the passenger boarding bridge is the least noticed part of the traveling experience. When asked, they often...

A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead.
A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead. By Judith Modell (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xxiv plus 341pp.). Everytime I see another project that focuses on Homestead, the Monongahela River town which once was the linchpin of Andrew Carnegie's empire of iron and steel, I'm reminded of...

Industrialization, too late?
SMOKE stack industrialization may be a bit late. In the mid-1970s, our economic managers decided not to go that way even though the Congress and the Constitutional Convention of 1971, according to Ding Lichauco, together with luminaries like Recto and Araneta, wanted to go that way. Lichauco also predicted...