Running steel, running America race, economic policy and the decline of Liberalism - Stein, Judith (University of North Carolina Press, 1998)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-388) and index
The politics of steel fundamentalism: the long 1950s -- Birmingham before and after king: racial change in steel -- The strange career of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: the segregation of racial and economic policies -- Title VII in the mills, agencies, and courts: theories and practices -- Tales of Lackawanna and Sparrows Point: implementing the Kerner Commission Report -- Litigation is everything: the Nixon years -- The limits of fair employment: the consent decrees and the economic crisis of the 1970s -- U.S. foreign and domestic policies in steel: the creation of conflict, 1945-1974 -- The locomotive loses power: Jimmy Carter's industrial and trade policies -- An industrial policy for steel? the decline of the Democratic Party -- Steel is not so fundamental: the Reagan reconstruction and contemporary America -- Conclusion: steel and the history of postwar America