Talk:History of the steel industry

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This is potentially a useful page, but needs a wider focus. If it is intended to be limited to after 1860, that should be in the title. My concern is that we seem to get too many parallel articles covering the same ground, and occasionally contradicting each other. I have merged several such texts into a new History of Ferrous Metallurgy. Could you ensure that your work is adequately linked to articles on related subjects, so that people expand existing articles, rather than repeating (or even contradicting) what appears elsewhere? We already have articles on steel and steelmaking, the former having a historical section. Peterkingiron 10:31, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

good suggestions. This article is primarily business history and only secondarily about the technology and metallurgy (which it will link to). It will start about 1860 but will link to articles on earlier eras as appropriate. The article steel (to which I added a bibliography) is 95% about technology and does not attempt to address business, economic and social dimensions. For example there is not a word on labor issues, unions, strikes etc. There is not a word on economics like cost, prices, tariffs, nationalization etc, nor attention to the major companies. Nor should there be--these non-technology topics should be treated here. The bibliography shows the direction this article is headed, and it will eventually be a long one, covering the major countries over the last 150 years. (one change, the production graph is a nice one and should be moved here.) Rjensen 10:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I do not want to dissuade you, merely to prevent duplication. Some of the articles that I mentioned above may be weak on this period (even on technology), please feel free to improve them. I am adding a short introductory section, which may help to prevent the subject straying. Peterkingiron 12:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC)