Friendly Takeover: How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town

by James B. Lieber

Lieber spent five years studying Wierton Steel's turnaround from another near-Rust Belt casualty to an inspirational success story, talking to people at all levels--ordinary workers, local and national labor leaders--to show what it took to make the company work for employee and management alike. Photos.

400 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

About the author

James B. Lieber is the author of Killer Care, Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland and Friendly Takeover: How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize). He has written for a variety of publications, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Nation among them. His article on the financial crisis for The Village Voice became that publication’s most widely read article for the year. He is a Pittsburgh-based lawyer, dividing his practice between civil rights law and commercial litigation.