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Industrialization and the transformation of American life : a brief introduction / Jonathan Rees.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rees, Jonathan, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrialization--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Industrialization.
- Industrial revolution--United States.
- Industrial revolution.
- Industrialization--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.
- United States--History--1865-.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 139 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. ; London : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., [2013]
- Summary:
- This book provides a descriptive, episodic yet analytical synthesis of industrialization in America. It integrates analysis of the profound economic and social changes taking place during the period between 1877 and the start of the Great Depression. Ten topics: varieties of industrialization, questions of labor, immigration, urbanization, the Westward movement, the environment, transportation, power, politics, and the organization of work, are examined with each subject illustrated by three case studies. The 30 case studies were selected as examples of the underlying principles of industrialization that cumulatively convey a comprehensive understanding of the era.
- Contents:
- Varieties of Industrialization. The Edgar Thomson Works of the Carnegie Steel Company
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Company
- The Washburn "A" Flour Mill.
- The Labor Question. The Knights of Labor
- The American Federation of Labor
- The Industrial Workers of the World.
- Immigration. The Chinese Exclusion Act
- The Alien Contract Labor Law and other immigration regulation
- The Dillingham Commission.
- Urbanization. The Columbian Exhibition and the real Chicago
- Streetcar suburbs
- Structural steel and the elevator.
- The West. Refrigerated transport
- Factories in the fields
- The Dawes Severalty Act and Native American education.
- Environment. Oysters
- The destruction of the longleaf pine
- Industrialization and the origins of American environmentalism.
- Transportation. The power of the locomotive
- Railroad space, railroad time
- Steamships.
- The Politics of Industrialization. The Sherman Antitrust Act
- Populism
- The Progressive movement.
- Reform. Taylorism
- Fordism
- Welfare capitalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765622564
- 9780765622556
- 0765622556
- 9780765622563
- OCLC:
- 779740417
- Publisher Number:
- 99956667368
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