The early years and the decline of the anthracite iron industry
The establishment and growth of iron and steel making in Bethlehem
Failure in commercial steels, 1880-1899
Armaments and ores
Reorganizing and redirecting Bethlehem Steel
War materiel, ships, and commercial products, 1904-1914
Wartime activity, expansion, and mergers, 1914-1923
Bethlehem Steel in the 1920s boom
Retrenchment, reconstruction, and war, 1930-1945
Material supplies, growth, and competition in the east, 1945-1957
Steel making in the far west and midwest
Shipbuilding, steel, and labor in Bethlehem's peak years
Responding to crises in the 1980s
Paring away the unviable
Hope and hope dashed: trade and rationalization during the 1990s
Into the abyss
Epilogue: the roots of decline.