Author: Jordan A. SchwarzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Ordeal of Twentieth-century America: Interpretive Readings
Author: Jordan A. SchwarzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Triangle Fire, Protocols Of Peace
Author: Richard GreenwaldPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 143990782X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
America searched for an answer to "The Labor Question" during the Progressive Era in an effort to avoid the unrest and violence that flared so often in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the ladies' garment industry, a unique experiment in industrial democracy brought together labor, management, and the public. As Richard Greenwald explains, it was an attempt to "square free market capitalism with ideals of democracy to provide a fair and just workplace." Led by Louis Brandeis, this group negotiated the "Protocols of Peace." But in the midst of this experiment, 146 mostly young, immigrant women died in the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911. As a result of the fire, a second, interrelated experiment, New York's Factory Investigating Commission (FIC)—led by Robert Wagner and Al Smith—created one of the largest reform successes of the period. The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York uses these linked episodes to show the increasing interdependence of labor, industry, and the state. Greenwald explains how the Protocols and the FIC best illustrate the transformation of industrial democracy and the struggle for political and economic justice.
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of CongressCatalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
Book Description
Regulating Big Business
Author: Tony Allan FreyerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052135207X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century a new form of capitalism emerged in Great Britain and the United States. Before the revolutions in communication and transportation, the owners of firms managed the processes of production, distribution, transportation and communication personally. By the end of the century, however, technological innovation and mass markets fostered the development of large-scale corporate structures, leading to a separation between owners and operators. In this new form of capitalist enterprise managers were increasingly the principal decision makers. This economic transformation spawned social and political tensions which compelled the public and policy makers to decide upon an appropriate response to big business. A primary focus of public discourse was antitrust. This book explores the development of big business and the antitrust response in a comparative context.
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, ... Catalog of Books
Author: American Book Publishing Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
Book Description
Program
Author: Organization of American HistoriansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Library of Congress catalog--Books: subjects
Author: United StatesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9780874717853
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Program of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.