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The Decline of Laissez Faire, 1897-1917
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Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and growth of the factory system, labour movements and foreign and domestic commerce.
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Index
Actors’ Equity Association, 314
Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 371
Adams Act, 347, 348
Adamson Act, 257-258, 284, 288, 370
Agriculture in 1900, 8
changing scene, 315-319
and cooperatives, 352-355
credit in, 359-365
expansion and prosperity, 320-322
in First World War, 338–341
in foreign trade, 334-338
geographic shift, 327-330
and government, 375
mechanization, 330–334
output, 322-327
research in, 132-133
tenancy in, 355–358
and work of the Department, 342-352
Aldrich, Nelson W., 47, 62
Aldrich-Vreeland Emergency Currency Act, 33-34
Alexanderson, E. F. W., 127
Aluminum, 130-131, 148–149
Aluminum Company of America, 164, 186
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, 301
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 314
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen, 300
American Anti-Boycott Association, 295
American Association for Labor Legislation, 262, 264, 291
American Association of Highway Improvement, 233
American Can Company, 161, 165, 171
American Chicle Corporation, 78
American China Development Company, 82
American Federationist, 275, 299
American Federation of Labor, and company unions, 275
departments of, 286
growth of, 280-287, 289-295, 309-314
and industrial education, 265
internal dissension, 302-309
opposition of employers, 295-301
policy and philosophy, 280-287
and welfare projects, 273
American Federation of Teachers, 314
American Labor Union, 304
American Magazine, 370
American Sheet Steel Company, 301
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 267–268
American Steel Hoop Company, 301
American Steel and Wire Company, 159, 169
American Sugar Refining Company, 156, 158, 167, 171
American Telephone and Telegraph Co...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- I. Economic America at the End of the Century
- II. The Business Cycle and the Rise of Finance Capitalism
- III. The Problems of Foreign Trade
- IV. The Development of Economic Imperialism
- V. The Movement of Population
- VI. The Technology of American Manufactures
- VII. The Movement of Industry
- VIII. Consolidation of Business
- IX. The Railroad Empire
- X. Revolution in Transportation
- XI. Status of the Workers
- XII. Advance of Organized Labor
- XIII. The New Agriculture
- XIV. Expanding Agriculture: Problems and Policies
- XV. The Era of Reform
- XVI. The Literature of the Subject
- Appendix
- Index