America’s HistoryEighth Edition

America: A Concise HistorySixth Edition

CHAPTER 17Industrial America:

Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911

Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

James A. HenrettaEric Hinderaker

Rebecca EdwardsRobert O. Self

I. The Rise of Big Business

A. Innovators in Enterprise

1. Production and Sales

2. Standard Oil and the Rise of the Trusts

I. The Rise of Big Business

A. Innovators in Enterprise (cont.)

3. Assessing the Industrialists

4. A National Consumer Culture

I. The Rise of Big Business

B. The Corporate Workplace

1. Managers and Salesmen

2. Women in the Corporate Office

I. The Rise of Big Business

C. On the Shop Floor

1. Health Hazards and Pollution

2. Unskilled Labor and Discrimination

II. Immigrants, East and West

A. Newcomers from Europe

1. West

2. East

II. Immigrants, East and West

B. Asian Americans and Exclusion

1. Immigrants

2. Chinese excluded

III. Labor Gets Organized

A. The Emergence of a Labor Movement

1. Trade unions

2. Agrarians

3. Greenback-Labor Party

III. Labor Gets Organized

B. The Knights of Labor

1. A cooperative commonwealth

2. Haymarket Square incident

III. Labor Gets Organized

C. Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Alliance

1. Farmers’ Alliance

2. Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

III. Labor Gets Organized

D. Another Path: The American Federation of Labor

1. Samuel Gompers

2. Pure-and-simple unionism