| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Managing the Mills: Labor Policy in the American Steel Industry during the Nonunion Era. By Jonathan Rees. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2004. xxvi, 298 pp. Cloth, $74.00, ISBN 0-7618-2705-6. Paper, $43.00, ISBN 0-7618-2706-4.)

For five decades, from the 1890s through the 1930s, the managers of the American steel industry ferociously fought any attempt by their workers to organize themselves into labor unions. As Jonathan Rees's Managing the Mills shows in detail, steel companies spent large sums of money on everything from labor spies and armed guards to softball teams and pensions to stay union-free. Then in March of 1937, U.S. Steel president Myron Taylor abandoned this project by signing a labor agreement with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Ever since, historians have puzzled over why Taylor so quickly reversed directions.

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