For the record.

• Position: Brief Article

President Bush signed off on a tariff for imported steel and Indiana lawmakers recently passed a bill providing a special tax break for northwest Indiana's steel mills. These protective acts by federal and state government are clear indications of the importance of the high-paying jobs in the steel industry, even while the number of those jobs is shrinking. In his article, The State of Steel, Professor Don Coffin of Indiana University Northwest documents the evolution of the steel industry in this country from the latter decades of the previous century through today. His analysis focuses on competition and concentration in the...