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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 and poured millions into schools, job training and adult education. Often criticized as welfare capitalism, this system was unique in the world. Lesser known capitalists like Peter Cooper and George Westinghouse led the movement in the mid-1800s. Westinghouse, in particular, focused on good wages and benefits. Robber barons like George Pullman and Andrew Carnegie would later succeed in corrupting the higher benefits of worker-centered capitalism. This is the story of those accomplished Americans who sought to balance the accumulation of wealth with communal responsibility. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Industrialists -- United States -- Case studies.
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Industrialists. |
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United States. |
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Case studies.
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Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Case studies.
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Capitalists and financiers. |
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Capitalism -- United States -- History.
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Capitalism. |
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History. |
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Industrial relations -- United States -- History.
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Industrial relations. |
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Labor -- United States -- History.
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Labor. |
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United States -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Skrabec, Quentin R. Benevolent barons 9780786494941 (DLC) 2015019342 (OCoLC)900306653 |
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9781476620299 electronic book |
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1476620296 electronic book |
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9780786494941 |
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0786494948 |
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