Table of Contents: “…--The difficult art of getting.--The Standard oil company.--Some experiences in the oil business.…”

Table of Contents: “…--The difficult art of getting.--The Standard oil company.--Some experiences in the oil business.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Predatory price cutting : the standard oil (N.J.) case /…”

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Table of Contents: “…Historical setting -- Du Pont -- creating the autonomous divisions -- General Motors -- creating the general office -- Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) -- ad hoc reorganization -- Sears, Roebuck and company -- decentralization, planned and unplanned -- Organizational innovation -- a comparative analysis -- The spread of the multidivisional structure -- Conclusion -- chapters in the history of the great industrial enterprise.…”

Table of Contents: “…Historical setting -- Du Pont -- creating the autonomous divisions -- General Motors -- creating the general office -- Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) -- ad hoc reorganization -- Sears, Roebuck and company -- decentralization, planned and unplanned -- Organizational innovation -- a comparative analysis -- The spread of the multidivisional structure -- Conclusion -- chapters in the history of the great industrial enterprise.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- American business in the Civil War -- Giant business in communications and transportation -- The commercial response to a mass market -- The United Fruit Company -- The Singer Sewing Machine Company -- Giant farms -- The American Sugar Refining Company -- The American Tobacco Company -- The forest products industry -- Mining -- Standard Oil Corporation -- United States Steel Corporation -- The meat packers.…”
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Table of Contents: “…McDonnell and the workers' struggle in Paterson, New Jersey -- Labor in the land of Lincoln : coal miners on the prairie -- The labor policies of the large corporation in the Gilded Age : the case of the Standard Oil Company -- A note on immigration history, "breakdown models," and the rewriting of the history of immigrant working-class peoples -- Schools for freedom : the post-emancipation origins of Afro-American education -- Enslaved Afro-Americans and the "Protestant" work ethic -- Labor history and the "Sartre question" -- Interview with Herbert Gutman -- The black family in slavery and freedom : a revised perspective -- Class composition and the development of the American working class, 1840-1890 -- Historical consciousness in contemporary America.…”

Table of Contents: “…v. 1: A foothold in life -- Venture in oil -- Boom and depression -- Economies, rebates, and expansion -- The birth of Standard Oil -- The wrong road to Union -- The first battle lost -- The conquest of Cleveland -- Rockefeller finds new allies -- Leviathan -- The crucial year, 1874-75 -- Sweeping the board -- War with the Pennsylvania -- A new kind of monopoly -- Leaders and lieutenants -- New gluts, new conflicts -- The regions challenge Rockefeller -- Citizen of Cleveland -- The Pipe Line revolution -- Pipe Line Colossus -- The first great trust -- v. 2: The great machine -- Reaching the consumer -- "Competitors we must have" -- Citizen of New York -- Widening horizons in oil -- The rising storm -- The founding of a University -- Rise of the University -- New aides: Gates and the son -- The trust slain and reborn -- Rockefeller, Morgan, and the steel trust -- Rockefeller drops the helm -- Adventures in spending -- Assailants and defenders -- The dissolution of the trust -- "The well-being of mankind" -- Exeunt omnes -- Trial balance.…”

Table of Contents: “…. / Edwin Land -- Columbia Broadcasting System / William S. Paley -- Standard Oil Co. / John D. Rockefeller -- Ford Motor Co. / Henry Ford II -- Madame C.J. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Contributors -- Introduction -- Entries A-Y -- Chronology -- Selected primary documents: Hudson's Bay Company Charter, 1670; Alexander Hamilton, Report on the subject of manufactures, 1791; Constitution of the American Federation of Labor, 1886; Interstate Commerce Act, 1887; Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," 1889; Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890; Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906; Standard Oil Company of New Jersey et al. v. United States, 1911; Clayton Antitrust Act, 1914; Franklin D. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Associations new and old -- Return to the river and the lecture circuit -- Mark Twain and the phunny phellows -- Webster and Paige -- A romance of the white conscience -- Publishing Grant -- Brooding in King Arthur's Court -- Progress and poverty -- Europe on only dollars a day -- A dream sold down the river -- Family matters -- A friend at Standard Oil -- Broken twigs and found canoes -- Back home and overland -- Lost in the British Empire -- Mark Twain's daughter -- IV. …”

Table of Contents: “…Tarbell's 'The history of the Standard Oil Company' (1904) -- 33. Explaining the universe : Henry Adams's 'The education of Henry Adams' (1906) -- 34. …”