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1 Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e
Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy

2 Highlights Sources of Industrial Growth Capitalism and Its Critics
Industrial Workers in the New Economy © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

3 Sources of Industrial Growth
Smokestacks (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

4 Sources of Industrial Growth
Industrial Technologies New Steel Production Techniques Pittsburgh Rise of the Petroleum Industry Pioneer Oil Run, 1865 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

5 Sources of Industrial Growth
The Airplane and the Automobile Henry Ford The Wright Brothers The Wright brothers (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

6 Sources of Industrial Growth
Research and Development Corporate Research and Development Transformation of Higher Education Thomas Edison (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

7 Sources of Industrial Growth
The Science of Production “Taylorism” Moving Assembly Line Railroad Expansion Rapid Expansion of the Railroad Standard time © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

8 Sources of Industrial Growth
Railroads, © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

9 Sources of Industrial Growth
The Corporation Limited Liability Andrew Carnegie New Managerial Techniques © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

10 Sources of Industrial Growth
Andrew Carnegie (Portrait Gallery) J.P. Morgan (Portrait Gallery) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

11 Sources of Industrial Growth
Consolidating Corporate America Horizontal and Vertical Integration Rockefeller’s Standard Oil © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

12 Sources of Industrial Growth
The Trust and the Holding Company The Trust Agreement Rapid Corporate Consolidation © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

13 Capitalism and Its Critics
The “Self-Made Man” Myth of the Self-Made Man Survival of the Fittest Social Darwinism Justifying the Status Quo Cornelius Vanderbilt (Portrait Gallery) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

14 Capitalism and Its Critics
The Gospel of Wealth Russell Conwell Horatio Alger Alternative Visions Lester Frank Ward Henry George Looking Backward © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

15 Capitalism and Its Critics
The Problems of Monopoly Monopoly blamed for: Artificially high prices Unstable economy Increasing Inequality © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

16 Industrial Workers in the New Economy
The Immigrant Workforce New Sources of Immigration Heightened Ethnic Tensions Wages and Working Conditions Loss of Control Inspection room at Ellis Island, NY (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

17 Industrial Workers in the New Economy
Women and Children at Work Poorly Paid Women Ineffective Child-Labor Laws The Struggle to Unionize National Labor Union Molly Maguires Rutherford B. Hayes (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

18 Industrial Workers in the New Economy
The Great Railroad Strike National Strike The Knights of Labor Dissolution of the Knights of Labor © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

19 Industrial Workers in the New Economy
The AFL Opposition to Female Employment The AFL’s Agenda Haymarket Square © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

20 Industrial Workers in the New Economy
The Homestead Strike Henry Clay Frick The Union Defeated The Pullman Strike Eugene Debs Inside the Homestead plant (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

21 Industrial Workers in the New Economy
Sources of Labor Weakness Shifting Nature of the Workforce Corporate Strength © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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