02966oam 2200625 a 450 991081634070332120200520144314.0979-84-00-61930-41-282-40983-297866124098370-313-06810-010.5040/9798400619304(CKB)2550000000003431(EBL)494898(OCoLC)62876936(SSID)ssj0000335252(PQKBManifestationID)11272608(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335252(PQKBWorkID)10272123(PQKB)10569263(Au-PeEL)EBL494898(CaPaEBR)ebr10349585(CaONFJC)MIL240983(MiAaPQ)EBC494898(DLC)BP9798400619304BC(EXLCZ)99255000000000343120240214e20052024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe birth of big business in the United States, 1860-1914 commercial, extractive, and industrial enterprise /David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger,c2006.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),20241 online resource (222 p.)"First published in 2006"- -T.p. verso.0-313-32395-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.The economic and cultural roots of contemporary American business can be traced directly to developments in the era between the Civil War and World War I. The physical expansion of the country combined with development of transportation and communication infrastructures to create a free market of vast proportion and businesses capable of capitalizing on the accompanying economies of scale, through higher productivity, lower costs, and broader distribution. The Birth of Big Business in the United States illuminates the conditions that changed the face of American business and the national econoIndustriesUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesEconomic conditionsIndustriesHistory.338.0973/09/034Whitten David O1698531Whitten Bessie E(Bessie Emrick)1698532DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910816340703321The birth of big business in the United States, 1860-19144080072UNINA