Benevolent barons : American worker-centered industrialists, 1850-1910 /

American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Skrabec, Quentin R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Temas:
Industrialists > United States > Case studies.
Capitalists and financiers > United States > Case studies.
Capitalism > United States > History.
Industrial relations > United States > History.
Labor > United States > History.
Industriels > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Relations industrielles > États-Unis > Histoire.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General
Capitalism.
Capitalists and financiers.
Economic history.
Industrial relations.
Industrialists.
Labor.
Unternehmer
Investor
Kapitalismus
Arbeitsbeziehungen
United States > Economic conditions.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
United States.
USA
Case studies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • One. The Puritan Experiment
  • Two. Genesis of an Industrial Race
  • Three. European Industrialization, Master Entrepreneurs, and Worker Utopias
  • Four. Lowell and Rockdale
  • Five. Crisis in American Labor: Class, Skilled, and Unskilled Laborers
  • Six. Early Paternal and Employee-Driven Capitalists
  • Seven. Robber Barons and the Questioning of Capitalism
  • Eight. New Breed of Paternal Capitalists
  • Nine. American Patriarchal or Philanthropic Capitalism
  • Ten. The Failure of Pullman City
  • Eleven. The Greatest Paternalist of Them All
  • Twelve. Westinghouse's Paternalism
  • Thirteen. Trusts and Corruption
  • Fourteen. Wilmerding, America's New Lanark
  • Fifteen. Capitalism with a Heart-Westinghouse's Vision
  • Sixteen. A Government Policy for Philanthropy and Paternalism
  • Seventeen. Corporate Paternalism
  • Eighteen. Unions, Industrial Democracy and the New Deal
  • Nineteen. Visions Come True
  • Twenty. And the Wolf Finally Came-Deindustrialization and Globalization
  • Chapter Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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