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THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1865–1900. CHAPTER 18. The Rise of Corporate America. The Character of Industrial Change Railroad Innovations Consolidating the Railroad Industry Applying the Lessons of the Railroads to Steel The Trust: Creating New Forms of Corporate Organization.
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THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1865–1900 CHAPTER 18
The Rise of Corporate America • The Character of Industrial Change Railroad Innovations • Consolidating the Railroad Industry • Applying the Lessons of the Railroads to Steel • The Trust: Creating New Forms of Corporate Organization
Stimulating Economic Growth • The Triumph of Technology • Specialized Production • Advertising and Marketing • Economic Growth: Costs and Benefits
The New South • Obstacles to Economic Development • The New South Creed and Southern Industrialization • The Southern Mill Economy • The Southern • Industrial Lag
Factories and the Work Force • From Workshop to Factory • The Hardships of Industrial Labor • Immigrant Labor • Women and Work in Industrial America • Hard Work and the Gospel of Success
Labor Unions and Industrial Conflict • Organizing Workers • Strikes and Labor Violence • Social Thinkers Probe for Alternatives