Introduction : state and steel in Western Europe, Yves Mény and Vincent Wright -- The European iron and steel industry and the world crisis, Patrick A. Messerlin -- The politics of transatlantic steel trade, Hans Van Der Ven and Thomas Grunert -- Community policies on steel 1974-1982 : a case of collective management, Loukas Tsouklis and Robert Strauss -- Decision-making processes in the steel crisis policy of the EEC : neocorporatist or integrationist tendencies?, Thomas Grunert -- Steel policy in the U.K. : the politics of industrial decline, J. J. Richardson and G. F. Dudley -- The implementation of Britain’s national steel strategy at the local level, S. Young -- The politics of the public sector steel in Italy : from the 'economic miracle' to the crisis of the eighties, John Eisenhammer and Martin RHODES -- Nuova Italsider - Taranto and the steel crisis : problems, innovations and prospects, Anthony C. Masi -- The nemesis of industrial patriotism : the French response to the steel crisis, Jack Hayward -- The local implementation of France's national strategy, Vincent Hoffman-Martinot and Pierre Sadran -- Longwy and Bagnoli : a comparative study of trade union response to the steel crisis in France and Italy, John Eisenhammer -- Overcoming the steel crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany 1974-1983, Josef Esser and Werner Väth -- The state, the regions and industrial redevelopment : the challenge of the Belgian steel crisis, Michel Capron