Book ID: CBB050996284

Big Business in America: the corporate century, 1900-2000 (2021)

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Thomas J. Dorich (Author)


Lexington Books
Publication date: 2021
Language: English


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 333

This study analyzes the influence of big business on the economic, political, and social structure of twentieth-century America. The author examines the development of a mass production and consumption economy and argues that the corporation became a key institutional force in the United States. (Amazon)

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Authors & Contributors
Cortada, James W.
Grant, H. Roger
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.
Peter Robison
Fairfax, Daniel
Novak, William J.
Journals
Business History Review
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Railroad History
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Yale University Press
Cambridge University Press
Columbia University Press
Crown Business
Doubleday
Concepts
Business history
Business and Politics
Public policy
Corporate culture
Corporations
Business enterprises
People
Hollerith, Herman
White, William
Watson, Thomas John
Watson, Arthur Kittredge‏
Langdon, Jervis
Thomas J.Watson, Sr.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Ottoman Empire
France
Italy
Japan
Switzerland
Institutions
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company
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