Essays Tagged: "steel production"

Capitalism in the U.S, Necessary Evil or Blatant Oppression?

population was impoverished. Still, theelectric light was invented, the Bessemer process increased steel production,machinery increased agricultural output and many miles of railroad were laid.Many g ...

(3 pages) 83 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

An analysis of Soviet economic development from the years 1928 to 1967

industry. They did this for the sake of developing more heavy industry--especially the expansion of steel production.Under the First Five-Year Plan Soviet steel production (5.9 million tons) fell far ... urnaces were constructed and old ones modernized, and the foundations were laid for a Ural iron and steel center at Magnitogorsk and a western-Siberian one in the Kuznetsk basin (Kuzbas).The Second Fi ...

(7 pages) 47 0 1.8 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Essay about American Industrialization About a page long

reased. Rural populations decreased as urbanization increased. (See Document 1) Education rates and steel production rates also increased during this time period. The growth of railroads made transpor ... d expand its markets, while producing low priced goods, and still making a profit for stockholders. Steel making entrepreneur, Andrew Carnegie, had donated much of his wealth to the building of public ...

(1 pages) 59 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

What were the results of the five year plans

By 1941the USSR had experienced a six-fold increase in coal production and a four-fold increase in steel production. This indicates a success of the five year plans, since the purpose of the five yea ...

(2 pages) 32 0 2.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Results of Stalin's first 5 Year Plan

strialized countries such as Germany, Japan, the US, the UK etc. He successfully increased coal and steel production by six-fold and four-fold respectively. In addition, new industrial centers such as ... ecially, Magnitogorsk, in south east Siberia, which was based on the metal industries like iron and steel, experienced enormous growth; in 1929 there were only 25 people living there but three years l ...

(2 pages) 54 0 2.7 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Social and economic freedom in China through Globalisation.

the world, its domestic market was quite underdeveloped; comprised mainly of primary industry like steel production and agriculture.It was then that foreign capital investment could be made which lai ...

(2 pages) 43 0 1.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Reducing the Power of an Oligpoly

ligopoly describes a market dominated by a few firms. In the world market, there are oligopolies in steel production, automobiles and semi-conductor manufacturing. But, oligopoly also describes condit ...

(3 pages) 57 0 4.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Case Study: The Politics of Trade and Steel

ou believe the Bush administration was correct in imposing tariffs in March 2002 on a wide range of steel imports?At the time President Bush decided to impose temporary tariffs on steel imports, 16 st ... er bankruptcy and a total of 30 had declared bankruptcy over the prior few years (Hill, 2004). U.S. steel producers were losing market share to foreign steelmakers in large part due to subsidies and o ...

(5 pages) 394 0 3.7 Sep/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

George Eliot

years plan which was a plan he devised to make sure that Russia would recover its economy and boost steel production along with arms so they could compete with Germany. In the process of doing this St ...

(2 pages) 1233 0 3.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The united states steel indust

The United States Steel Industry After years of restructuring, an investment of approximately $50 billion in n ... ation of world-class manufacturing technologies and increased labor productivity, the United States steel industry is among the most competitive in the world. With the application of advanced technolo ... making the industry energy efficient and environmentally responsible. Despite the increased steel production within the United States, foreign imports of steel to the United States hit record ...

(3 pages) 37 1 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

To what extent could the five year plans be called a success?

ear improvements in heavy industry, electricity, the amount of huge industrial companies, coal, and steel production, the industrialisation of Russia was not as successful as it could have been.The se ...

(6 pages) 9 0 3.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Explain how Russia and the Soviet Union modernised from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until 1941.

ed by the Provisional Government. In 1916 (figures not available for 1917), the production of iron, steel and coal had barely increased since 1913. The production of iron declined within three years f ... its toll as production fell to considerably low levels. Iron production fell to 0.1 million tonnes, steel production fell to 0.2 million tonnes and coal production fell to 9.5 million tonnes. The prod ...

(2 pages) 14 1 3.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

An Evaluation of the Rule of Joseph Stalin

n ten years time. He planned to set up a command economy, and increase the industrial production of steel, coal, oil, iron, and electrical power. Targets for industries were set and the coal and steel ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Industralized Versus Non Industralized Societies

infant mortality, increased number of high school graduates, more telephone usage, higher output in steel production, various benefits to consumers, stockholders and laborers, and the opportunity for ...

(4 pages) 1137 0 0.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers

Captains of Industry

United States switched from an agricultural society to a more urban society. With the invention of steel beams to build with, it provided the opportunity to create larger buildings on less land thus ... ution in America shifted the focus from agricultural jobs to factory jobs such as textiles, oil and steel production. With all the new industry hundreds of new jobs became available to the immigrants ...

(4 pages) 2 0 0.0 Apr/2013

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History