Presented in a straightforward, non-technical manner, this book describes how one strategic industry has adapted to powerful technological and structural changes, ushering in a new phase in the global steel business.--Daniel Madar is a professor of political science at Brock University and the author of Heavy Traffic: Deregulation, Trade, and Transformation in North American Trucking.--''Big Steel explores an industry that has been in near continual transformation for a generation or more and captures the shape and structure of these changes. Perhaps even more significantly, it makes the case that developments in the new millennium denote a new phase in the global steel business, which portends even more dramatic changes of behaviour and performance.'' - Peter Clancy, author, Micro-Politics and Canadian Business: Paper, Steel and the Airlines.