The emergence of industrial america : strategic factors in american economic growth since 1870 / Peter George.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Peter J. (Peter James), 1941-2017, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industries--United States--History.

Industries.

United States--Economic conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 242 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [1982]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contains a series of interpretive essays on the most dramatic aspects of American economic growth during the last century-the sweeping technological and organizational changes in manufacturing and agriculture and their profound economic and social consequences. The overall focus is the maturing of the American economy from a classic market economy, based primarily on small units of production and private enterprise, through the growth of industrialism and the structural transformation of the economy, to the modern mixed economy with its complex array of giant corporations and labor unions and greatly expanded government sector. The chapters are organized thematically. A distinctive feature of the book is the use of illustrative case studies in each chapter.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

Preface

1 An Overview of American Economic Growth, 1840 to 1960

2 The Sources of Growth

3 Technological Change in Manufacturing

4 The American Industrial Entrepreneur

5 Organizational Change in Manufacturing

6 Technological and Organizational Change in Agriculture

7 Industrialism, Unrest, and Reform: The Coming of Government Regulation

8 The Market Economy: Prosperity and Prostration

9 World War Two and Its Aftermath: The Ascendancy of the Mixed Economy

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Based on a series of lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge, England, during the Lent Term 1974.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438403939

1438403933

9780585078229

058507822X