| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 506 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [491]-500). |
| Contents |
The corporate foundations of America. "Of a huge and unknown greatness" -- The Calvinist strain : the ethnic of prosperity ; The corporate roots of American government : from corporation to commonwealth / S. Innes -- Economic metabolism : the New England merchants in the seventeenth century / B. Bailyn -- Trafficking in souls : the slave trade / J.B. Hedges -- The case for and against incorporation : the partnership form of organization : its popularity in early-nineteenth-century Boston / N.R. Lamoreaux -- Legacies : the revolution and the corporation / J. Beatty -- |
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A magician's rod, 1820-1869. The (slow) conquest of American space : toward scale and scope / J. Beatty -- Women and children first : the Boston Manufacturing Company / T. Dublin -- A business utopia? : Charles Dickens on the mill girls of Lowell -- The courts and the corporation : Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 1837 (from the opinion of Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court -- The machine in the garden : the American system of manufacturing / J. Beatty -- America on track : the railroads : the first modern business enterprises, 1850s-1860s / A.D. Chandler, Jr. -- The debt : slave labor and the Southern railroads ; Omnipotent without violence : the Civil War and the Sears Roebuck catalog / J. Beatty -- |
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The age of incorporation, 1870-1930. "The outstanding fact of modern life" : a riot of individualistic materialism / J. Beatty -- Tarbell's revenge : story of a great monopoly / H.D. Lloyd -- A second opinion : the prospering fathers / P. Johnson -- "Organize or perish!" : bloody Homestead, 1892 / J. Beatty -- PR : AT&T : the vision of a loved monopoly / R. Marchand -- Taylorism : the Cinderella of occupations : managing the work of department store saleswomen, 1900-1940 / S.P. Benson -- "Like trying to screw an elephant" : Ford vs. GM / R.S. Tedlow -- The twenties : the business of America / J. Beatty -- |
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Bust to boom, 1930-1973. The American high : oligopoly's golden age / G.D. Smith, D. Dyer -- The corporate surround : the modern corporation and private property / G.C. Means -- The monster : from The grapes of wrath / J. Steinbeck -- Washington Inc. : the military-industrial complex / J. Beatty -- The scientific-industrial complex : making "R" yield "O" : the IBM labs / R. Buderi -- Office politics : "the office in which I work" / J. Heller -- Company men : the other-directed round of life / D. Riesman -- What price success? : from The man in the gray flannel suit / S. Wilson -- Vision and the bottom line : more than profits / J.C. Collins, J.I. Porras -- |
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Unbundled, 1973-1999 : U-turn : the crisis of the American corporation / G.D. Smith, D. Dyer -- Blame the Harvard Business School : managing our way to economic decline / R.H. Hayes, W.J. Abernathy -- Management's worst hour : the hostile takeover and its discontents / P.F. Drucker -- Betrayal : reckoning at Safeway / S.C. Faludi -- Polluting the culture : the war on Time Warner / P. Alexander -- Women in a man's world : giving at the office / A.R. Hochschild -- Minority report : what blacks think of corporate America / S. Branch -- Social responsibility : the corporation and society / M. Whitman -- Is democracy catching up to capitalism? : a sea of troubles / J. Beatty. |
| Subject |
Big business -- United States -- History.
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Corporations -- United States -- History.
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Industrialization -- United States -- History.
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Capitalism -- United States -- History.
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Business and politics -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Economic conditions.
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United States -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Beatty, Jack.
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| ISBN |
0767903528 |
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