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Sources of Industrial Growth Industrial Technologies
Alexander Graham Bell
“Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!”
- Alexander Graham Bell
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Sources of Industrial Growth Industrial Technologies
Alexander Graham Bell Impact of Electric Power
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Sources of Industrial Growth The Technology of Iron and Steel Production
Bessemer Process
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Sources of Industrial Growth The Technology of Iron and Steel Production
Bessemer Process New Blast Furnaces
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Sources of Industrial Growth The Technology of Iron and Steel Production
Bessemer Process New Blast Furnaces New Transportation Systems
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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
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Sources of Industrial Growth The Automobile and the Airplane
Henry Ford
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“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
-Henry Ford
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Sources of Industrial Growth The Automobile and the Airplane
Henry Ford The Wright
Brothers
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The Wright Brothers (Library of Congress)
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Sources of Industrial Growth Research and Development
Corporate Research and Development
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Edison’s Notebook
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Sources of Industrial Growth The Science of Production
“Taylorism”
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“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
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Sources of Industrial Growth The Science of Production
“Taylorism” Assembly Line
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Sources of Industrial Growth Railroad Expansion and the Corporation
Importance of Government Subsidies
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Railroads, 1870-1890
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Sources of Industrial Growth Railroad Expansion and the Corporation
Importance of Government Subsidies “Limited Liability”
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Sources of Industrial Growth Railroad Expansion and the Corporation
Importance of Government Subsidies “Limited Liability” U.S. Steel Created
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Sources of Industrial Growth Railroad Expansion and the Corporation
Importance of Government Subsidies “Limited Liability” U.S. Steel Created “Horizontal Integration” and “Vertical Integration”
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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
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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”
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Capitalism and Its Critics Survival of the Fittest
Ideology of Individualism
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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
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Capitalism and Its Critics Survival of the Fittest
Ideology of Individualism Social Darwinism Corporate Wealth Legitimated
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Capitalism and Its Critics “The Gospel of Wealth”
Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie (Portrait Gallery)
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“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.”
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Capitalism and Its Critics “The Gospel of Wealth”
Gospel of Wealth Horatio Alger
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Capitalism and Its Critics Alternative Visions
Socialist Labor Party
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Capitalism and Its Critics Alternative Visions
Socialist Labor Party Henry George’s “Single Tax”
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“This association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times.”
- Henry George
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Capitalism and Its Critics The Problems of Monopoly
Economic Concentration Challenged
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Cornelius Vanderbilt (Portrait Gallery)
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The Ordeal of the Worker The Immigrant Work Force
Rapidly Expanding Working Class
Inspection Room at Ellis Island, NY (Library of Congress)
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The Ordeal of the Worker The Immigrant Work Force
Rapidly Expanding Working Class Labor Contract Law
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The Ordeal of the Worker Wages and Working Conditions
Harsh Working Conditions
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The Ordeal of the Worker Wages and Working Conditions
Harsh Working Conditions Child Labor
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The Ordeal of the Worker Emerging Unionization
“Molly Maguires”
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The Ordeal of the Worker Emerging Unionization
“Molly Maguires” Railroad Strikes of 1877
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Rutherford B. Hayes (Library of Congress)
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The Ordeal of the Worker The Knights of Labor
Terence V. Powderly
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The Ordeal of the Worker The AFL
Samuel Gompers
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“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
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The Ordeal of the Worker The AFL
Samuel Gompers Haymarket Bombing
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The Ordeal of the Worker The AFL
Samuel Gompers Haymarket Bombing Labor Discredited
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The Ordeal of the Worker The Homestead Strike
Henry Clay Frick
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Inside the Homestead Plant (Library of Congress)
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The Ordeal of the Worker The Homestead Strike
Henry Clay Frick Government Intervention
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The Ordeal of the Worker The Pullman Strike
American Railway Union
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The Ordeal of the Worker Sources of Labor Weakness
Few Gains for Labor
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The Ordeal of the Worker Sources of Labor Weakness
Few Gains for Labor Sources of Labor Weakness
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