1878-1899: Business and the Economy
1878-1899: Chapter Three: Business and the Economy
by FREDERICK DALZELL
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY 86
OVERVIEW 93
TOPICS IN THE NEWS
Agricultural Economy 95
Modernizing Agriculture 96
The Department Store 96
New South Creed 97
Government Regulation of Big Business 99
Standard Time 100
The Homestead Strike 100
Labor 101
Panic of 1893 103
Workers Cry Out 104
The Pullman Strike 105
The Railroads 106
The Rise of Big Business 107
HEADLINE MAKERS
Andrew Carnegie 111
Eugene V. Debs 112
Jay Gould 112
John Pierpont Morgan 113
John Davidson Rockefeller 114
PUBLICATIONS 115
Sidebars and tables are listed in italics.
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