Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. State and Steel in Western Europe / MÉN , YVES / WRIGHT, VINCENT -- The European Iron and Steel Industry and the World Crisis / MESSERLIN, PATRICK A. -- The Politics of Transatlantic Steel Trade / VAN DER VEN, HANS / GRUNERT, THOMAS -- Community Policies on Steel 1974-1982: A Case of Collective Management / TSOUKALIS, LOUKAS / STRAUSS, ROBERT -- Decision-Making Processes in the Steel Crisis Policy of the EEC: Neocorporatist or Integrationist Tendencies? / GRUNERT, THOMAS -- Steel Policy in the U.K.: The Politics of Industrial Decline / RICHARDSON, J. J. / DUDLEY, G. F. -- The Implementation of Britain's National Steel Strategy at the Local Level / YOUNG, S. -- The Politics of Public Sector Steel in Italy: From the 'Economic Miracle' to the Crisis of the Eighties / EISENHAMMER, JOHN / RHODES, MARTIN -- Nuova Italsider-Taranto and the Steel Crisis: Problems, Innovations and Prospects / MASI, ANTHONY C . -- The Nemesis of Industrial Patriotism: The French Response to the Steel Crisis / HAYWARD, JACK -- The Local Implementation of France's National Strategy / HOFFMANN-MARTINOT, VINCENT / SADRAN, PIERRE -- Longwy and Bagnoli: A Comparative Study of Trade Union Response to the Steel Crisis in France and Italy / EISENHAMMER, JOHN -- Overcoming the Steel Crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany 1974-1983 / ESSER, JOSEF / VÄTH, WERNER -- The State, the Regions and Industrial Redevelopment: The Challenge of the Belgian Steel Crisis / CAPRON, MICHEL -- Author's Biographical Sketches -- Index