A Merchant Prince of the Nineteenth Century

A Productive Systems Analysis of the 1983 Phelps Dodge Strike

“…Its initial import/export business along the Atlantic coast was transformed into a southwestern copper empire in response to demand and product market changes. 4 The Phelps Dodge Corporation produced 20 percent of the copper mined in the United States in 1983, making it the second largest domestic producer in a highly concentrated industry. The corporation is horizontally concentrated and vertically integrated.…”