Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.1 Brinkley, THE UNFINISHED NATION, 3/e Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.2 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Sources of Industrial Growth –Industrial Technologies Edison’s Notebook, U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.3 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Sources of Industrial Growth –The Technology of Iron and Steel Production
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.4 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Sources of Industrial Growth –The Airplane and the Automobile Kitty Hawk, 1904
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Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.6 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Sources of Industrial Growth –The Science of Production
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.7 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Sources of Industrial Growth –Railroad Expansion and the Corporation
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.8 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Capitalism and Its Critics –Survival of the Fittest “The growth of a large business is merely the survival of the fittest.” John D. Rockefeller
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.9 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Capitalism and Its Critics –The Gospel of Wealth \
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.10 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Capitalism and Its Critics –Alternative Visions “This association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times.” Henry George
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.11 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Capitalism and Its Critics –The Problems of Monopoly Price Fixing
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.12 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Capitalism and Its Critics –The Problems of Monopoly Price Fixing Unstable economics
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.13 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy Capitalism and Its Critics –The Problems of Monopoly Price Fixing Unstable economics Rise of Wealth
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.14 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –The Immigrant Work Force Inspection room at Ellis Island, NY (Library of Congress)
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.15 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Wages and Working Conditions Low Wages
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.16 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Wages and Working Conditions Low Wages Long Hours
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.17 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Wages and Working Conditions Low Wages Long Hours Lack of safety
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.18 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Women and Children at Work
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.19 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Emerging Unionization National Labor Union
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.20 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Emerging Unionization National Labor Union Gender Politics
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.21 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Emerging Unionization National Labor Union Gender Politics “Molly Maguires”
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.22 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –The Knights of Labor Wage system Vs. Cooperative System
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.23 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –The Knights of Labor Wage system Vs. Cooperative System Terence Powderly
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.24 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –The AFL Samuel Gompers
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.25 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –The AFL Samuel Gompers Eight Hour workday
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.26 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –The AFL Samuel Gompers Eight Hour workday Haymarket Riot
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.27 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –The Homestead Strike Inside the Homestead Plant (Library of Congress)
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.28 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –The Pullman Strike Eugene V. Debs
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.29 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –The Pullman Strike Eugene V. Debs Federal involvement
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.30 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Sources of Labor Weakness Expanding Industrial Economy
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.31 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Sources of Labor Weakness Expanding Industrial economy Under-representation
Copyright ©2000 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.32 Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy The Ordeal of the Worker –Sources of Labor Weakness Expanding Industrial economy Under-representation Shifting labor force