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Big Business and Organized Labor

Big Business and Organized Labor. Chapter 20. I. The Rise of Big Business. II. The Second Industrial Revolution. Three Related Developments. Creation of an interconnected national transportation and communication network The use of electric power

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Big Business and Organized Labor

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  1. Big Business and Organized Labor Chapter 20

  2. I. The Rise of Big Business

  3. II. The Second Industrial Revolution

  4. Three Related Developments • Creation of an interconnected national transportation and communication network • The use of electric power • The systematic application of scientific research to industrial processes

  5. III. Building the Transcontinental Railroads

  6. IV. Financing the Railroads Jay Gould

  7. Cornelius Vanderbilt

  8. Biltmore Estate

  9. V. Manufacturing and Inventions Christopher Sholes

  10. Alexander Graham Bell

  11. Thomas Edison

  12. George Westinghouse

  13. VI. Rockefeller and the Oil Trust

  14. “I have always regarded it as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.” - John D. Rockefeller

  15. VII. Carnegie and the Steel Industry

  16. Sir Henry Bessemer

  17. VIII. J.P. Morgan, The Financier

  18. IX. Sears and Roebuck Richard Sears Alvah Roebuck

  19. X. Social Trends

  20. XI. Child Labor

  21. XII. Disorganized Protest The Molly Maguires

  22. XIII. The Railroad Strike of 1877

  23. XIV. The Sand Lot Incident

  24. XV. Toward Permanent Unions

  25. XVI. The Knights of Labor

  26. XVII. Anarchism

  27. XVIII. The Haymarket Affair

  28. XIX. Gompers and the AFL

  29. XX. The Homestead Strike

  30. XXI. The Pullman Strike

  31. XXII. Mother Jones

  32. XXIII. Socialism and the Unions Karl Marx

  33. Eugene Debs

  34. XXIV. The Wobblies

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