June 7, 1995
New Book on Weirton Steel
Friendly Takeover: How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town is a new book on the employee buyout of Weirton Steel Corporation. Author James Lieber chronicles how employees bought the failing company in 1984, the initial success they had after the purchase, and the problems they have faced, and sometimes overcome, since then. The book is available from Viking Press for $23.95.