Colossus: how the corporation changed America [1st ed] 9780767909570, 0767909577, 9781299068162, 1299068162

Table of contents :
The corporate foundations of America. "Of a huge and unknown greatness" --
The Calvinist strain : the ethnic of prosperity
The corporate roots of American government : from corporation to commonwealth / S. Innes --
Economic metabolism : the New England merchants in the seventeenth century / B. Bailyn --
Trafficking in souls : the slave trade / J.B. Hedges --
The case for and against incorporation : the partnership form of organization : its popularity in early-nineteenth-century Boston / N.R. Lamoreaux --
Legacies : the revolution and the corporation / J. Beatty. A magician's rod, 1820-1869. The (slow) conquest of American space : toward scale and scope / J. Beatty --
Women and children first : the Boston Manufacturing Company / T. Dublin --
A business utopia? : Charles Dickens on the mill girls of Lowell --
The courts and the corporation : Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 1837 (from the opinion of Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court --
The machine in the garden : the American system of manufacturing / J. Beatty --
America on track : the railroads : the first modern business enterprises, 1850s-1860s / A.D. Chandler, Jr. --
The debt : slave labor and the Southern railroads
Omnipotent without violence : the Civil War and the Sears Roebuck catalog / J. Beatty. The age of incorporation, 1870-1930. "The outstanding fact of modern life" : a riot of individualistic materialism / J. Beatty --
Tarbell's revenge : story of a great monopoly / H.D. Lloyd --
A second opinion : the prospering fathers / P. Johnson --
"Organize or perish!" : bloody Homestead, 1892 / J. Beatty --
PR : AT & T : the vision of a loved monopoly / R. Marchand --
Taylorism : the Cinderella of occupations : managing the work of department store saleswomen, 1900-1940 / S.P. Benson --
"Like trying to screw an elephant" : Ford vs. GM / R.S. Tedlow --
The twenties : the business of America / J. Beatty. Bust to boom, 1930-1973. The American high : oligopoly's golden age / G.D. Smith, D. Dyer --
The corporate surround : the modern corporation and private property / G.C. Means --
The monster : from The grapes of wrath / J. Steinbeck --
Washington Inc. : the military-industrial complex / J. Beatty --
The scientific-industrial complex : making "R" yield "O" : the IBM labs / R. Buderi --
Office politics : "the office in which I work" / J. Heller --
Company men : the other-directed round of life / D. Riesman --
What price success? : from The man in the gray flannel suit / S. Wilson --
Vision and the bottom line : more than profits / J.C. Collins, J.I. Porras. Unbundled, 1973-1999 : U-turn : the crisis of the American corporation / G.D. Smith, D. Dyer --
Blame the Harvard Business School : managing our way to economic decline / R.H. Hayes, W.J. Abernathy --
Management's worst hour : the hostile takeover and its discontents / P.F. Drucker --
Betrayal : reckoning at Safeway / S.C. Faludi --
Polluting the culture : the war on Time Warner / P. Alexander --
Women in a man's world : giving at the office / A.R. Hochschild --
Minority report : what blacks think of corporate America / S. Branch --
Social responsibility : the corporation and society / M. Whitman --
Is democracy catching up to capitalism? : a sea of troubles / J. Beatty.

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