The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
Editor: Boyer, Paul S.
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-19-973881-6
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Business
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Offers a wide range of perspectives to provide an encompassing context of the United States' labor and economic histories.
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Table of Contents
- Editorial and Production Staff
- List of Entries
- Introduction
- Preface
- Common Abbreviations Used in this Work
- Volume 1: ABRA–MUTU
- A
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- Accumulation, Social Structures of
- Adamson Act
- Adkins v. Children's Hospital
- Advertising
- Afl-Cio
- African American Labor Organizations
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration
- Agricultural Extension and Education
- Agricultural Workers
- Agriculture
- Colonial Era
- 1770 to 1890
- The Golden Age (1890 to 1920)
- Since 1920
- Airplanes and Air Transport
- Air Traffic Controllers’ Strike (1981)
- Alien Contract Labor Law
- Alliance for Labor Action
- Altgeld John P. (1847–1902),
- Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers
- American Anti-Boycott Association
- American Bankers Association
- American Economic Association and the New Economics
- American Federation of Labor
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
- American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
- American Federation of Teachers
- American Newspaper Guild
- American System of Manufacturing and Interchangeable Parts
- Anarchism and Labor
- Antilabor Mobilization after 1945
- Antitrust Legislation
- Antiunion Law Firms
- Apprenticed Labor
- Apprenticeship Systems
- Arnold Thurman (1891–1969),
- Arrow Kenneth (1921–),
- Artisanal Labor
- Astor John Jacob (1763–1848),
- Automotive Industry
- Aviation Industry
- B
- Bank of America
- Bank of the United States, First and Second
- Barbed Wire
- Battle of the Overpass (1937)
- Behavioral Economics
- Berle, Adolf, and Gardiner Means and the Modern Corporation
- Biemiller Andrew (1906–1982), labor leader and lobbyist.
- Biotechnology Industry
- Bisbee Strike and Deportation
- Braceros
- Brannan Plan
- Bretton Woods Conference
- Brewing and Distilling
- Bridges Harry (1901–1990), prominent labor leader.
- Brookwood Labor College
- Brophy John (1883–1963), leader of the United Mine Workers of America.
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- Brown Brothers Harriman & Company
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Business Cycles
- Business Growth and Decline
- Business Roundtable
- C
- Campbell Soup
- Canals and Waterways
- Capitalism
- Capitalism and Immigration
- Capitalism and Industrial Democracy
- Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919), industrial entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Cattlemen's Associations
- Chambers of Commerce
- Change to Win
- Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
- Chase Manhattan Bank
- Chavez, Cesar (1927–1993), labor activist and founder and president of the United Farm Workers of America.
- Chemical Industry
- Chicago School
- Child Labor
- Citizens’ Committees and Alliances
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Clark John Bates (1847–1938), neoclassical economist.
- Clark, John Maurice (1884–1963), economist.
- Class Consciousness
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- Clerical Workers
- Closed Shop
- Collective Bargaining
- Colorado Labor Wars (1903–1905)
- Commission on Industrial Relations
- Commodity Futures Markets
- Communications Revolution
- Communications Workers of America
- Company Unions
- Computer Monitoring of Office Workers
- Congress of Industrial Organizations
- Consumer Credit and Credit Cards
- Consumer Culture
- Consumer Movements
- Containerization and Transformation of Shipping
- Contract, Sanctity of
- Cooperatives
- Cooperatives and Worker Management
- Corn Hybrid
- Corporate Agriculture
- Corporations, Modern
- Corporatism
- Cotton Industry
- Cotton Trade, Antebellum Era
- Cowboys
- Coxey's Army
- Crédit Mobilier
- D
- Dairy Industry and Dairy Products
- Danbury Hatters’ Case
- Davis–Bacon Act
- Debs Eugene V. (1855–1926), labor leader, socialist, and presidential candidate.
- Department Stores
- Depressions, Economic
- Deregulation, Financial
- Deskilling
- Dockworkers’ Unions, Multiracial
- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
- Domestic Labor
- Duke James (1856–1925), manufacturer of tobacco products and philanthropist.
- Dust Bowl Era and Farm Crisis
- E
- Economic Deregulation and the Carter Administration
- Economic Development
- Economic Growth and Income Patterns
- Economic Regulation
- Economic Theories and Thought
- Education and Human Capital
- Eight-Hour Day
- Electricity and Electrification
- Employee Free Choice Act
- Employee Representation Plans
- Employment Act of 1946
- Employment-at-Will
- Energy Crises, Late Twentieth Century
- Environmental Regulations
- Equal Pay Act
- Erdman Act
- Executive Order 10988
- F
- Factory and Hours Laws
- Factory Farming
- Factory System
- Fair Deal
- Fair Employment Practices Committee
- Fair Housing Act
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Family Farm
- Farm Bureau Federation
- Farm Machinery
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Housing Administration
- Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
- Federal Regulatory Agencies
- Federal Reserve Act
- Federal Reserve System
- Federal Trade Commission
- Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
- Film and Labor
- Financial and Banking Promotion and Regulation
- Financial Crises, 1980s–2010
- Firestone Harvey (1868–1938), industrialist and corporate executive.
- Fisheries
- Five-Dollar Day
- Fletcher Ben (1890–1949), African American labor leader.
- Flint General Motors Strike
- Flynn E. G. (1890–1964), labor activist.
- Food and Diet
- Ford, Henry, and Fordism
- Foreign Trade
- Forests and Forestry
- Foster William Z. (1881–1961), labor radical.
- Freed Laborers
- Freedom of Contract
- Free-Labor Ideology
- Free Silver and Bimetallism
- Friedman, Milton, and the Chicago School of Economics
- Fur Trade
- G
- Galbraith John Kenneth (1908–2006),
- Gallatin, Albert, and Economic Development
- Garment Industry
- Gastonia Strike (1929)
- Gates Bill (1955–), developer of computer software, businessman, and philanthropist.
- GATT and WTO
- Gender and Work
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- General Electric
- General Motors
- General Motors Strike (1945)
- George Henry (1839–1897), philosopher and reformer.
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- GI Bill
- Glass–Steagall, Repeal of
- Globalization
- Godcharles v. Wigeman
- Goldman Emma (1869–1940), anarchist, social activist, free-speech advocate, and spokesperson for women's freedom.
- Goldman Sachs
- Gold Rushes
- Gold Standard
- Gompers Samuel (1850–1924), labor leader and president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
- Government Regulation and Promotion
- Grain Processing
- Grains
- Granger Movement and Laws
- Great Depression (1929–1939)
- Great Recession of 2008 and After
- Great Society
- Great Upheaval of 1886
- Green William (1873–1952), labor leader.
- Greenbackism
- Greenback Labor Party
- Group of Eight (Twenty)
- H
- Hamilton, Alexander, and Economic Development
- Hanna Mark (1837–1904),
- Harriman E. H. (1848–1909), railroad financier.
- Haymarket Affair
- Haywood William D. (1869–1928), labor leader.
- Hepburn Act
- Herrin Massacre (1922)
- Highways and Interstates
- Hill James J. (1838–1916), businessman and railroad promoter.
- Hill Joe (1879–1915), labor activist and songwriter.
- Hillman Sidney (1887–1946),
- Hoffa James R. (1913–1975?), labor leader.
- Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
- Homestead Act
- Homestead Strike (1892)
- Homework
- Hormel P-9 Strike (1985)
- Household Technology and Domestic Labor
- Hull House
- Huntington Collis P. (1821–1900), railroad entrepreneur.
- Hutcheson William (1874–1953), labor leader.
- Hydroelectric Power
- I
- Immigration
- Immigration-Restriction Laws
- Indentured Labor
- Industrial Democracy
- Industrial Design
- Industrialization and Deindustrialization
- Industrial Policy, Theory and Practice of
- Industrial Relations
- Industrial Research Laboratories
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Inflation and Deflation
- Institutional and Historical Economics
- Insull, Samuel (1859–1938), businessman and utilities-industry spokesman.
- Insurance
- Internal Improvements
- Internal Labor Markets
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
- International Association of Machinists
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
- International Labor Defense
- International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- International Monetary Fund
- International Unionism and International Solidarity
- Internet Commerce
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- Iron and Steel Industry
- J
- Jewish American Labor Movement
- Jewish Labor Committee
- Joint-Stock Companies
- Jones, Mary “Mother” (1837–1930), labor activist.
- Jungle, The
- K
- Keating–Owen Act
- Kelley Florence (1859–1932), social reformer.
- Keynesian Economics
- Knights of Labor
- Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
- L
- Labor and Anti-Communism
- Labor Conspiracy Law
- Labor Journalism
- Labor Leaders
- Labor Markets
- Labor Movement, Decline of the
- Labor Movements
- Labor Organizations, Pre–Civil War
- Labor Productivity Growth
- Labor Spies and Pinkertons
- Labor's Role in Politics
- Labor Unions
- La Follette's Seamen's Act
- Laissez-Faire and Classical Economics
- Landrum–Griffin Act
- Lasch, Christopher (1932–1994),
- Lawrence “Bread and Roses” Strike (1912)
- Lehman Brothers
- Lewis, John L. (1880–1969), labor leader.
- Little, Frank (1879–1917), labor leader and martyr.
- Little Red Songbook
- Little Steel Strike (1937)
- Livestock Industry
- Living-Wage Campaigns
- Lochner v. New York
- London Economic Conference (1933)
- Longshoremen and Longshoremen's Unions
- Long Swings and Cycles in Economic Growth
- Lowell System
- Ludlow Massacre
- Lumbering
- M
- Madar Olga (1915–1996), top-ranking officer and leader in the United Auto Workers (UAW).
- Mail-Order Houses
- Maritime Transport
- Marketing Cooperatives
- Marxian Economics
- Mass Marketing
- Mass Production
- Master and Servant Law
- Mayo, Elton, and Work Culture
- Mazzocchi, Anthony “Tony” (1926–2002), labor leader.
- MCCarthyism and Antilabor Action
- MCCormick Cyrus (1809–1884), inventor and manufacturer.
- MCDonald's
- MCGuire P. J. (1852–1906), labor leader.
- McNary–Haugen Bill
- Meany George (1894–1980), labor leader.
- Meatpacking and Meat-Processing Industry
- Mechanization of Agriculture
- Mellon Banks
- Memphis Sanitation Strike (1968)
- Mercantilism
- Merger Movement
- Mesabi Range and Michigan Hard-Rock Miners’ Strikes (1907–1916)
- Metal Smelting and Refining
- Metal Trades
- Migratory Labor and Migrant Workers
- Military–Industrial Complex
- Mining Industry
- Minneapolis Teamsters and General Strike (1934)
- Molly Maguires
- Monetarism
- Monetary Policy, Federal
- Morgan, J. P. (1837–1913), banker, financier, and art patron.
- Motor Vehicles
- Muller V. Oregon
- Murray Philip (1886–1952), labor leader.
- Muste, A. J. (1885–1967), minister, pacifist, and political and labor activist.
- Mutual Funds and Retirement Accounts
- Volume 2: NAFT–YESH
- N
- Nafta
- National Association of Manufacturers
- National Banking System (1863)
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- National City Bank (Citibank)
- National Education Association
- National Farmers Union
- National Industrial Conference Board
- National Industrial Recovery Act and National Recovery Administration
- National Labor Relations Board
- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
- National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act
- National Labor Union
- National War Labor Board, World War I
- National War Labor Board, World War II
- Native Americans, Economic Aspects of U.S. Relations with
- Navigation Acts
- Neoclassical Economics
- Neoliberalism
- Neoliberalism as Public Economic Policy
- Nestor Agnes (1880–1948), labor leader and social reformer
- New Deal and Institutional Economics
- New Deal Banking Regulation
- New Deal Corporate Regulation
- New Frontier
- New Left Economics
- New York Stock Exchange
- New York Teachers’ Strike (1968)
- 9to5 and Women Office Workers
- Nixon's Economic Policies
- Norris–LaGuardia Act
- North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta)
- Northern Securities Case
- No-Strike Pledge, World War I and World War II
- Nuclear Power
- Nursing
- Nussbaum Karen (1950–), labor leader.
- O
- Occupational Diseases and Hazards
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Office Technology
- Okun, Arthur, and Inequality
- Open-Shop Movement
- O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney (1864–1943), labor leader.
- P
- Parsons Albert (1848–1887), labor activist.
- Paterson Strike and Pageant
- Pensions, Civil War
- Perkins Frances (1880–1965), social worker and labor regulator.
- Petroleum Industry
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Phillips Curve
- Pinkertons
- Plastics and Synthetics
- Poor People's Movement
- Postal Services
- Poverty
- Powderly Terence V. (1849–1924), labor leader.
- President's Mediation Commission (1917)
- Printing and Publishing
- Productivity
- Profits, Changes in Rates of
- Progressive Miners of America
- Proletarianization
- Public Land Policy
- Public Sector Unionism
- Public Utility Holding Company Act
- Public Works Administration
- Pullman Strike
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Q
- Quill Michael (1905–1966), labor leader.
- R
- Racism
- Radicalism and Workers
- Radio
- Railroad Brotherhoods
- Railroad Labor Board
- Railroad Land Grants
- Railroads
- Railroad Strike (1877)
- Railway Labor Act
- Randolph, A. Philip (1889–1979), labor leader and civil rights activist.
- Rational Choice Theory
- Reaper
- Regulation of Labor and Labor Markets
- Renewable Energy and Climate Change
- Report on Manufactures
- Repression of Unions
- Reserve Army of Labor
- Resistance to Management
- Reuther Walter (1907–1970), labor leader.
- Right-to-Work Committees and Organizations, National
- Right-to-Work Committees and Organizations, State Laws Related to
- Rockefeller John D. (1839–1937), oil-industry leader and philanthropist.
- Rockefeller Plan, The
- Rohatyn Felix (1928–), investment banker and U.S. ambassador.
- Rule of Reason
- Rust Belt and Deindustrialization
- S
- Sacco and Vanzetti Case
- St. John, Vincent (1877–1929), labor leader.
- Salt of the Earth
- Samuelson Paul (1915–2009),
- Sandlot Riots and Anti-Chinese Movement
- San Francisco General Strike (1934)
- Satellite Communications
- Savings and Loan Debacle
- Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
- Schneiderman Rose (1883–1972), labor and women's rights leader.
- Scientific Management
- Scottsboro Case
- Secretaries of Department of Labor
- Section 7(a)
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Sedition and Espionage Acts
- Segmented Labor Markets, Primary and Secondary
- Service Employees International Union
- Sexism
- Shadow Banking System
- Shanker Albert (1928–1997), labor leader.
- Sharecropping and Tenancy
- Sherman Act
- Shipbuilding
- Shoe Industry
- Shopping Centers and Malls
- Simple Commodity Production
- Single-Tax Movement
- Slaughterhouse Cases
- Slavery
- Expansion of Slavery
- As a Labor System
- The Slave Trade
- Slavery and Capitalism
- Sloan Alfred P. (1875–1966), businessman and philanthropist.
- Socialism and American Exceptionalism
- Social Security Act
- Soldiering on the Job
- Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
- Stagflation
- State Regulatory Laws
- Steam Power
- Steel Strike of 1919
- Stern Andy (1950–), labor leader.
- Stock and Commodity Exchanges
- Stock Market Crash of 1929
- Stretch-Out, Worker Resistance to
- Strikes
- An Overview
- Decline of Strikes
- Subsidies, Agricultural
- Sugarcane and Sugar Beets
- Sumner William G. (1840–1910), sociologist.
- Supply-Side Economics
- Sutton Crystal Lee (1940–2009),
- Sweeney John (1934–),
- Swift Gustavus (1839–1903),
- T
- Taft–Hartley Act
- Tariffs
- Taxation
- Taxes, Federal Income
- Taylor, F. W.
- Taylor Society
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union
- Teapot Dome Oil Scandal
- Technocracy
- Technology
- Technology and Labor
- Telegraph
- Telephone
- Television
- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
- Temporary National Economic Committee
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Textile Industry
- Textile Strike (1934)
- Textile Workers Union of America
- Theatrical Unions
- Title VII
- Tobacco Industry
- Tobacco Trade
- Tobin Dan (1875–1955), labor leader.
- Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
- Trade Policy, Federal
- Trade Union Educational League and Trade Union Unity League
- Transportation Revolution
- Transport Workers Union
- Trautmann William E. (1869–1940),
- Treaty of Detroit and Postwar Labor Accord
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
- Triangular Trade
- Trilateral Commission
- Truax v. Corrigan
- Trumka Richard (1949–), labor leader.
- Turnpikes and Early Roads
- U
- Undocumented Workers
- Unemployment
- Union Corruption
- Unionization Rates
- Union Reform Movements
- Union Shop
- United Auto Workers
- United Brewery Workers
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
- United Electrical Workers
- United Farm Workers of America
- United Mine Workers
- United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
- United Steelworkers
- Uprising of 20,000
- Utopian and Communitarian Movements
- V
- Vagrancy and Workers
- Vanderbilt Cornelius (1794–1877), shipping and railroad tycoon and financier.
- Veblen Thorstein (1857–1929), sociologist, economist, and social critic.
- Vertical Integration, Economies of Scale, and Firm Size
- Volcker Paul (1927–), economist and chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987.
- Voluntarism
- W
- Wages, Real and Nominal
- Wal-Mart
- Walton, Sam (1918–1992), merchant and founder of Wal-Mart Stores.
- Wanamaker, John, and Wanamaker's
- Ward, Lester F. (1841–1913), sociologist.
- War Industries Board
- War Labor Boys
- Wartime Economic Regulation
- Water and Irrigation
- Watson, Thomas, Sr. (1874–1956), business executive, head of the International Business Machines Company (IBM).
- Webster, Milton (1887–1965), labor leader.
- Welfare Capitalism
- Welfare Reform
- Welfare State
- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
- Western Federation of Miners
- Westinghouse, George (1846–1914), inventor and industrialist.
- Whitney, Eli (1765–1825), inventor and arms manufacturer.
- Wisconsin School of Economics
- Women's Trade Union League
- Women Workers
- Work
- Worker Colleges and Education
- Workers Defense League
- Workers’ Self-Management
- Worker Training
- Works Progress Administration
- World Bank
- World Federation of Trade Unions
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Wurf, Jerry (1919–1981), labor leader.
- Y
- Yazoo Land Fraud
- Yeoman Myth
- Yeshiva University, the NLRB, and Collective Bargaining