Capitalizing on change : a social history of American business /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state
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Table of Contents:
- Early capitalism and the rise of a market economy
- North America's colonial economy
- The early national economy, 1776-1820
- Antebellum America, 1820-1860
- The unstoppable engine
- Entrepreneurial leaves from the Gilded Age
- A changing workplace and society
- Washington comes forward, 1900-1912
- The age of organization
- The consumer decade
- Hard times, 1933-1945
- The American (quarter) century, 1945-1973
- Coping with decline, 1974-1980
- Restructuring and rebirth, 1980s
- The new economy, the burst bubble, and an economy in trouble, 1990-2008
- The rise of a global economy
- Thinking small
- The Twenty-first century .