Author: Philadelphia Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Annual Report ...
Author: Philadelphia Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Author: Albert J. ChurellaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Producers Versus Capitalists
Author: Tony Allan FreyerPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914961
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This mid-Atlantic region is intended to serve as a federal system in miniature, offering opportunities for comparative analysis.
Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania
Author: Samuel HazardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
American Railroad Journal
Author: Proceedings
Author: Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road Company
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Railway Locomotives and Cars
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Railroad Construction in the United States During the Decades from 1864 to 1875
Author: Julius WindenThe Register of Pennsylvania
Author: Samuel HazardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description