HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Grater, Fire Sale, 6 Years
10 Sep 2017
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Week 3 lecture 1 - boom and busts. Readings: week 3 incorporation: mansel g. blackford, american manufacturing, 1850-1930: a business history approach oha. Magazine (2010): 17-22: worth robert miller, the lost world of gilded age politics journal of the gilded age and progressive. Era (2002): 49-67: hana layson and leon fink, chicago workers during the long gilded age, the newberry library. James barrett and david roediger, inbetween peoples journal of american ethnic h istory (1997): 3-44. *recap: find examples (people, places, examples: industrial system, increasing in corporation, complex intertwined, rise of new labor regimes, family farm -> factory. New financial systems: states -> a country, national identity, people are more unified. Agenda: large scale patterns, mechanization, infcorpoation, integration, rise of captains of industry: , robber barons", boom and bust cycle, this week: how these patterns affected different peoples. Technology, mechanization: railroads, telegraph: communicate stock market, commodity prices, industrial agriculture, taylorization/scientific management. One section: american system of production.
