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The Second Industrial Revolution

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Contents

• The Second Industrial Revolution and Advanced Capitalism
  • Growth: Free Markets and Government Support
  • The Modern Corporation
  • The Life of the Workers
  • The Consumer Marketplace
• New Technologies
  • The Steel Industry
  • The Chemical Industry
  • Electricity
  • Aviation
  • Confidence and Disaster

• Wikipedia: Second Industrial Revolution
• Growth: Free Markets and Government Support
  • George Friedrich List (1789-1846): National System of Political Economy, excerpts [At this Site]
  • Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): A New Standard of Value, The Economist, November 20, 1875 [Was At McMaster, now Internet Archive]
  • Walter Bagehot  (1826-1877): Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. [Was At McMaster, now Internet Archive]
    A classic analysis of the British banking system which was the basis for reform for many other European banking systems.
  • Robert Franz: The German Banking System, 1910, excerpts [At this Site]
  • Ida M. Tarbell: The History of the Standard Oil Company 1904 [Was At Rochester, now Internet Archive]
  • Henry Demarest Lloyd: "The Lords of Industry," North American Review 331 (June 1884) [At this Site]
• The Modern Corporation
  • Henry Demarest Lloyd: The Story of a Great Monopoly, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1881.  [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
  • German Concentration of Enterprise 1882-1907 [At GHDI] + PDF version [Internet Archive version here]
  • Frederick Winslow Taylor, M.E., Sc. D.: The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911 [At Marxists.org]
  • Wikipedia: Henry Ford (1863-1947)
  • Henry Ford: My Life and Work 1922 [Wikisource]
  • Henry Ford: Why I Favor Five Days' Work With Six Days' Pay 1926 [Wikisource]
    
• The Life of the Workers
  • Bayard Taylor: The Salt Mines of Wieliczka, 1850 [At this Site]
  • Émile Zola: Germinal, 1885 Translated by Havelock Ellis (1894), full text [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version here]
    See also Paul Brian's Study Guide [Was At WSU, now Internet Archibe]
• The Consumer Marketplace
  • Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929): The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899, [At this Site], or see Full text [Project Gutenberg]
  • Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929): Conspicuous Consumption, 1902 [At this Site]

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New Technologies

• The Steel Industry
  • Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898): Autobiography, 1905, in chapter files, full text [Was At Bibliomania, now Internet Archive]
  • Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898): The Bessemer Process, 1905 [Was At Bibliomania, now Internet Archive]
  • Inside the Exhibition Hall of a German Steel Works 1902 [At GHDI] + PDF version [Internet Archive version here]
• The Chemical Industry
  • Harold Baron: The Chemical Industry on the Continent, 1909 [At this Site]
• Electricity
  • Wikipedia: Holborn Viaduct Power Station
• Efficiency, Automation and the Assembly Line
  • Frederick W. Taylor: The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911 [At this Site]
• Aviation
  • Orville Wright (1871-1948): Telegram to Bishop Milton Wright announcing the first successful powered flight, 17 December, 1903 [At NARA] [Internet Archive version here]
• Confidence and Disaster
  • Michael Faraday: Observations on the Filth of the Thames, contained in a letter addressed to the Editor of " The Times" Newspaper, 1855 [Was At U.C. Irvine, now Internet Archive]
  • The Story of the Suez Canal, from All the Year Round, January 8, 1876 [At this Site]
  • Rosa Luxemburg: Martinique Written after the May 1902 volcanic eruption at the port of St. Pierre. [At Marxists.org]
  • How the Swiss Built the Greatest Tunnel in the World, 1905 [At this Site]
  • WEB Titanic Documents [At NARA] [Internet Archive version here]
  • Jay Henry Mowbray: The Sinking of the Titanic 1912 [Was At Gaslight, now Internet Archive]

NOTES:

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