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Lieber, James B. Friendly Takeover : How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town
New York Viking Penguin 1995 First Edition/first Printing Hardcover/Ex-Library Good
Good+/Good+ 067082075x c. 1995, gray/black bds. w/d.j., 382pp., (lt.shelf wear, corners bumped, text clean, binding good, d.j. taped to bds., lt.edge wear, mylar cover, lt.rubbing). rom Publishers Weekly Lieber, a Pittsburgh lawyer and writer, spent five years preparing this straightforward narrative account of Ernest T. Weir's successful Depression-era steel company, the changing postwar technology of plastics and aluminum that severely damaged the firm's competitiveness, and "the ultimate experiment in capitalism"?an employee stock ownership plan facilitated by federal legislation and by tax rulings of the 1980s?that brought the moribund company and the West Virginia community of Weirton back to life. The story is full of industrial and personal drama and accounts of labor management conflict and accommodation. It sheds new light on employee-owner initiatives that arise in response to the need to preserve jobs in ailing firms and offers factual guidance for comparable rescues in industries hard-pressed by economic adversity. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Lieber, a lawyer who grew up in Pittsburgh during the boom days of the steel industry, has written his first book on the story of how one steel company survived the dramatic downfall of its industry. Weirton Steel in Weirton, West Virginia, which provides thousands of jobs, survives today because of an employee buyout. Lieber examines the entire process of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan Weirton used and the personalities that made this "friendly takeover" happen. He follows the bankers, politicians, labor leaders, consultants, company managers, and ordinary workers who made the buyout work. Lieber also delves into changes in the work culture that occurred at Weirton to make it more competitive with foreign steelmakers. A fascinating, readable look at labor-management relations and corporate high finance. Recommended for large business collections.?Joel Jones, Kansas City P.L., Mo. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Steel has come to represent, variously, technological innovation and competition, lost American industrial might, and gritty blue-collar determination. Each case can be laden with emotion. This explains, perhaps, why even nonfiction accounts about the making of this most basic commodity are filled with narrative drama. Rusted Dreams (1987) and American Steel (1991) read like stirring fiction. Now, add to these Lieber's story of the fight for survival of Weirton Steel and the small West Virginia mill town that gave it its name. Lieber, a lawyer who has written for publications as diverse as Mother Jones and New York Times Magazine, begins with National Steel's decision to shut down Weirton in 1982 and shows, in a story every bit as compelling as Barbarians at the Gate (1990), how ordinary workers and community leaders used a little-known financial tool called the employee stock ownership plan in a struggle against union leadership and management alike to keep Weirton alive. David Rouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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