The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia

Author Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Author

Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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2012

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9780313398636

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eBook

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9th Grade - College Senior

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This reference book details the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business, featuring case studies of successful companies who challenged traditional operating paradigms, historical perspectives on labor laws, management practices, and economic climates, and an examination of the impact of these influences on today's business practices.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1: Privatization of the Plymouth Colony (1623).
2: Navigation Acts (1651).
3: Wealth of Nations (1776).
4: Patent and Copyright Statutes (1790).
5: “Report on Manufacturing” (1791).
6: Whiskey Rebellion (1794).
7: Jefferson Embargo (1807).
8: First Steamboat to New Orleans (1811).
9: National Road (1811).
10: Erie Canal (1825).
11: Tariff of Abominations (1828).
12: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1828).
13: Whig Party Evolves (1834).
14: Panic of 1837.
15: Automated Sewing Machine (1846).
16: Revolution, Famine, and Immigration (1848).
17: Clipper Ships (1849).
18: Western Union Telegraph Company (1851).
19: Great Exhibition of 1851.
20: Transatlantic Cable (1857).
21: Panic of 1857.
22: Overland Travel and Mail Service (1859).
23: Abraham Lincoln Establishes Protectionism (1860).
24: World’s Largest Cannon/ Civil War Technology (1864).
25: Transcontinental Railroad Completed (1869).
26: Westinghouse Air Brake (1869).
27: Panic of 1873.
28: Andrew Carnegie’s First Steel Mill (1875).
29: Centennial Exposition (1876).
30: First Commercial Telephone (1877).
31: Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
32: World’s First Skyscraper (1884).
33: War of the Currents (1885).
34: Sears Mail Order Business (1886).
35: Haymarket Riot (1886).
36: ALCOA Aluminum Formed (1888).
37: McKinley Tariff of 1890.
38: Homestead Strike of 1892.
39: Panic of 1893.
40: Chicago World’s Fair (1893).
41: Pullman Strike (1894).
42: Niagara Falls Power Plant (1896).
43: Paternal Capitalism—Homestead and Wilmerding, Pennsylvania (1896).
44: First Electric Sign (Product Branding and Advertising)—H. J. Heinz (1900).
45: First Billion-Dollar Corporation—United States Steel (1901).
46: Henry Ford Wins Race of the Century (1901).
47: Owens Automated Glass Bottle–Making Machine (1904).
48: Upton Sinclair’s Jungle (19
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