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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy

Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation , 4/e Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Sources of Industrial Growth Industrial Technologies Alexander Graham Bell “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!” - Alexander Graham Bell

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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy

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  1. Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 4/e Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy

  2. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • Industrial Technologies • Alexander Graham Bell “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!” - Alexander Graham Bell

  3. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • Industrial Technologies • Alexander Graham Bell • Impact of Electric Power

  4. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • The Technology of Iron and Steel Production • Bessemer Process

  5. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • The Technology of Iron and Steel Production • Bessemer Process • New Blast Furnaces

  6. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • The Technology of Iron and Steel Production • Bessemer Process • New Blast Furnaces • New Transportation Systems

  7. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • The Technology of Iron and Steel Production • Bessemer Process • New Blast Furnaces • New Transportation Systems • Rise of the Petroleum Industry Pioneer Oil Run, 1865

  8. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • The Airplane and the Automobile • Henry Ford “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” -Henry Ford

  9. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • The Airplane and the Automobile • Henry Ford • The Wright Brothers The Wright Brothers (Library of Congress)

  10. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • Research and Development • Corporate Research and Development Edison’s Notebook

  11. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • The Science of Production • “Taylorism” “The most important object of both the workmen and the management should be the training and development of each individual in the establishment, so that he can do (at his fastest pace and with the maximum of efficiency) the highest class of work for which his natural abilities fit him.” - Frederick Winslow Taylor

  12. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • The Science of Production • “Taylorism” • Assembly Line

  13. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • Railroad Expansion and the Corporation • Importance of Government Subsidies Railroads, 1870-1890

  14. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • Railroad Expansion and the Corporation • Importance of Government Subsidies • “Limited Liability”

  15. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • Railroad Expansion and the Corporation • Importance of Government Subsidies • “Limited Liability” • U.S. Steel Created

  16. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • Railroad Expansion and the Corporation • Importance of Government Subsidies • “Limited Liability” • U.S. Steel Created • “Horizontal Integration” and “Vertical Integration”

  17. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • Railroad Expansion and the Corporation • Importance of Government Subsidies • “Limited Liability” • U.S. Steel Created • “Horizontal Integration” and “Vertical Integration” • Standard Oil

  18. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Sources of Industrial Growth • Railroad Expansion and the Corporation • Importance of Government Subsidies • “Limited Liability” • U.S. Steel Created • “Horizontal Integration” and “Vertical Integration” • Standard Oil • “Holding Company”

  19. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Capitalism and Its Critics • Survival of the Fittest • Ideology of Individualism

  20. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Capitalism and Its Critics • Survival of the Fittest • Ideology of Individualism • Social Darwinism “The growth of a large business is merely the survival of the fittest.” John D. Rockefeller

  21. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Capitalism and Its Critics • Survival of the Fittest • Ideology of Individualism • Social Darwinism • Corporate Wealth Legitimated

  22. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Capitalism and Its Critics • The Gospel of Wealth • Gospel of Wealth “Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.” Andrew Carnegie (Portrait Gallery)

  23. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Capitalism and Its Critics • The Gospel of Wealth • Gospel of Wealth • Horatio Alger

  24. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Capitalism and Its Critics • Alternative Visions • Socialist Labor Party

  25. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Capitalism and Its Critics • Alternative Visions • Socialist Labor Party • Henry George’s “Single Tax” “This association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times.” Henry George

  26. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • Capitalism and Its Critics • The Problems of Monopoly • Economic Concentration Challenged Cornelius Vanderbilt (Portrait Gallery)

  27. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • The Immigrant Work Force • Rapidly Expanding Working Class Inspection room at Ellis Island, NY (Library of Congress)

  28. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • The Immigrant Work Force • Rapidly Expanding Working Class • Labor Contract Law

  29. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • Wages and Working Conditions • Harsh Working Conditions

  30. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • Wages and Working Conditions • Harsh Working Conditions • Child Labor

  31. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • Emerging Unionization • “Molly Maguires”

  32. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • Emerging Unionization • “Molly Maguires” • Railroad Strikes of 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes (Library of Congress)

  33. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • The Knights of Labor • Terence V. Powderly

  34. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • The AFL • Samuel Gompers “What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.” -Samuel Gompers

  35. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • The AFL • Samuel Gompers • Haymarket Bombing

  36. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • The AFL • Samuel Gompers • Haymarket Bombing • Labor Discredited

  37. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • The Homestead Strike • Henry Clay Frick Inside the Homestead Plant (Library of Congress)

  38. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • The Homestead Strike • Henry Clay Frick • Government Intervention

  39. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • The Pullman Strike • American Railway Union

  40. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • Sources of Labor Weakness • Few Gains for Labor

  41. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • Sources of Labor Weakness • Few Gains for Labor • Sources of Labor Weakness

  42. Chapter Seventeen:Industrial Supremacy • The Ordeal of the Worker • Sources of Labor Weakness • Few Gains for Labor • Sources of Labor Weakness • Capital’s Strength

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