Historical encyclopedia of American business
By: edited by Richard L. Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Richard L., 1944-
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pasadena, Calif
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1127
ISBN-13: 9781587655180; 9781587655197; 9781587655203; 9781587655210
Subjects: Industries -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias; Industrial management -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias; Business enterprises -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias; United States -- Commerce -- History -- Encyclopedias
Genres: Encyclopedias
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: AAA -- A&P -- Accounting industry -- Advertising industry -- Advice books -- Affirmative Action programs -- AFL-CIO -- Agency for International Development, U.S. -- Agribusiness -- Agriculture -- Agriculture, U.S. Department of -- Air traffic controllers’ strike -- Air transportation industry -- Aircraft industry / Airships -- Alaska gold rush -- Alaska pipeline -- Alaska purchase -- Alcoholic beverage industry -- American Automobile Association -- American Bimetallic League national convention -- American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations -- American Revolution -- American society of composers, authors & publishers -- American Stock Exchange -- AMEX -- Amtrak -- Amway Company -- Annapolis convention -- Anthracite coal strike -- Antique & art markets -- Antitrust legislation -- Apple -- Arab oil embargo of 1973 -- Arms industry -- Army corps of engineers, U.S. -- Articles of confederation -- ASCAP -- Asian financial crisis of 1997 -- Asian trade with the U.S. -- Astor, John Jacob -- Automation in factories -- Automotive industry -- Bank failures -- Bank of the United States, First -- Bank of the United States, Second --  Banking -- Banking law, Supreme Court & -- Bankruptcy law -- Barron's -- Baseball strike of 1972 -- Beef industry -- Bell, Alexander Graham -- Bell Labs -- Black Friday -- Black Hills gold rush -- Black Monday -- Bloomberg's Business News Services -- Bond industry -- Book publishing -- Boston Tea Party -- Boycotts, consumer -- Bracero program -- Bretton Woods agreement -- Bridges -- Broadcasting industry -- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Buffett, Warren -- Bush tax cuts of 2001 -- Business crimes -- Business cycles -- Business schools -- Cable News Network -- California gold rush -- Canadian trade with the U.S. -- Canals -- Carnegie, Andrew -- Carver, George Washington -- Catalog shopping -- Cereal crops -- Chavez, Cesar -- Chemical industries -- Child labor -- Child product safety laws -- Chinese trade with the U.S. -- Christmas marketing -- Chrysler bailout of 1979 -- CIO -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Civil rights movement -- Civil War, U.S. -- Clay's American system -- Clayton Antitrust Act -- CNBC -- CNN -- Coal industry -- Coal strike of 1902 -- Coca Cola Company -- Coin's Financial School -- Colonial economic systems -- Colorado River water -- Commerce, Supreme Court and -- Commerce U.S. Department of -- Commodity markets -- Computer industry -- Confederate currency -- Confederation, Articles of -- Congress, U.S. -- Congress of Industrial Organizations -- Constitution, U.S. -- Construction industry -- Contract law -- Contract law, Supreme Court and -- "Coolie" labor -- Copyright law -- Cotton gin -- Cotton industry -- Counterfeiting -- Coxey's army -- Crash of 1929 -- Credit-card buying -- Crédit Mobilier of America scandal -- Credit unions -- "Cross of gold" speech -- Cumberland Road -- Currency -- Cycles -- Dairy industry -- Dams & aqueducts -- Daylight Saving Time -- DC-3 airliner -- DDT banning -- Debs, Eugene Victor -- Deming, W. Edwards -- Depression of 1784 -- Depression of 1807-1809 -- Deregulation of financial institutions -- Derivatives & hedge funds industry -- DHS -- Digital recording technology -- Diners Club -- Disney, Walt -- Disneyland -- Dot.com bubble -- Drive-through businesses -- Drug trafficking -- Dust Bowl -- eBay -- Economist -- Edison, Thomas A. -- Education -- Education department, U.S. -- EEOC -- Electrical power industry -- Electronics industry -- E-mail -- Embargo acts -- Energy U.S. Department of -- Energy crisis of 1979 -- Enron bankruptcy -- Environmental movement -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- Erie Canal -- European Recovery program -- European trade with the U.S. -- Exploration -- Export Import Bank of the United States -- Factories -- Farm Credit Administration -- Farm labor -- Farm protests -- Farm subsidy programs -- Farming -- Fast-food restaurants -- FCA -- Federal Communications Commission -- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -- Federal Emergency Management Agency -- Federal Reserve System -- Federal Trade Commission -- FedEx -- FEMA -- Fiber optic industry -- Film industry -- Films with business themes -- Financial crisis of 2008 -- Fishing industry -- Food and Drug Administration -- Food for Peace -- Food processing industry -- Food stamp plan -- Forbes -- Ford, Henry -- Ford Model T --  Ford Motor Company -- Forestry industry -- Fort Knox -- Fortune -- 401K retirement plants -- Franchising -- Franklin, Benjamin -- French & Indian War -- FTC -- Fuller Brush Company -- Funeral industry -- Fur trapping & trading -- Gadsden Purchase -- Gambling industry -- Garner, John Nance -- Garvey, Marcus -- "Gas wars" -- Gates, Bill -- GATT -- Genentech -- General Agreement on Tariffs And Trade -- General Electric -- General Motors -- Genetic engineering -- Getty, Jean Paul -- G.I. Bill -- Gilded age -- Gold rush -- Gold standard -- Gompers, Samuel -- Google -- Gould, Jay -- Government spending -- Granger movement -- Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company -- Great Depression -- Great migration -- Greenspan, Alan -- Greeting card industry -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hawaii annexation -- Haymarket riot -- Health care industry -- HealthSouth Alabama scandal -- Highways -- Hoffa, Jimmy -- Home Shopping Network -- Homeland Security Department -- Homeowner insurance -- Homestead Act of 1862 -- Homestead strike -- Horses -- Hotel & motel industry -- Housing and Urban Development Department, U.S. -- How-to-succeed books -- Hughes, Howard -- Hurricane Katrina -- Iacocca, Lee -- Identity theft -- ILA -- ILGWU -- Immigration -- Income tax, corporate -- Income tax, personal -- Incorporation laws -- Indentured labor -- Indian removal -- Industrial research -- Industrial Revolution -- Industrial workers of the World -- Inflation -- Insider trading -- Insurance industry -- Interest rates -- Interior Department, U.S. -- Internal migration -- Internal Revenue Code -- International Brotherhood of Teamsters -- International Business Machines -- International economics & trade -- International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union -- International Longshoremen’s Association -- Internet -- Inventions -- Iraq wars -- Irrigated farming -- Japanese trade with the U.S. -- Jewelry industry -- Jungle, the -- Junior achievement -- Junk bonds -- Justice department, U.S. --  Kaiser, Henry J. -- Klondike gold rush -- Knickerbocker Trust panic -- Knights of labor -- Korean War -- Labor department, U.S. -- Labor history -- Labor law, Supreme Court and -- Labor strikes -- Land law, Supreme Court and -- Land laws -- Latin American trade with the U.S. -- Legal services -- Lend-lease Act -- Lewis John L. -- Lewis & Clark expedition -- Literary works with business themes -- Lotteries, state-run -- Louisiana Purchase -- McDonald’s restaurants -- Magazine industry -- Mail -- Mail-order shopping -- Major League strike of 1972 -- Management theory -- Marketing -- Marshall Plan -- Meatpacking industry -- Medicare & Medicaid -- Merger & corporate reorganization industry -- Metric system -- Mexican contract labor program -- Mexican trade with the U.S. -- Mexican War -- Military-industrial complex -- Mineral resources -- Minimum wage laws -- Mint, U.S. -- Mississippi & Missouri rivers -- Monetary policy, federal -- Montgomery Ward -- Morgan, J. P. -- Morris plan banks -- Mortgage industry -- Motel industry -- Motion picture industry -- Muckraking journalism -- Multinational corporations -- Music industry -- Mutual fund industry -- NAFTA -- NASDAQ -- National Broadcasting Company -- National Labor Relations Board -- National Labor Union -- National Science Foundation -- Native American trade -- Navigation acts -- NBC -- Neutrality act of 1794 -- New Deal programs -- New York Stock Exchange -- Newspaper industry -- 9/11 -- Nixon's China visit -- Nooyi, Indra K. -- North American Free Trade Agreement -- Northern Securities Company -- Northwest ordinances -- Nuclear power industry -- Occupational Safety and Health Act -- Oil -- Oil boycott -- Online marketing -- OPEC -- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries -- Organized crime -- Outsourcing, overseas -- Panama Canal -- Panic of 1819 -- Panic of 1837 -- Panic of 1857 -- Panic of 1873 -- Panic of 1893 -- Panic of 1907 -- Papermaking industry -- Parliamentary Charter of 1763 -- Patent law -- Penn, William -- Pension & retirement plans -- Petroleum industry -- Pharmaceutical industry -- Photography industry -- Photographic equipment industry -- Pike's western explorations -- Piracy, maritime -- Plantation agriculture -- Pony express -- Ponzi schemes -- Poor people's campaign of 1968 -- Pork industry -- Postal savings banks -- Postal service, U.S. -- Poultry industry -- Presidency, U.S. -- Price fixing -- Printing industry -- Private-security industry -- Privatization -- Prohibition -- Promotional holidays -- Public transportation, local -- Public utilities -- Pullman strike -- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act -- Radio broadcasting industry -- Railroad strike of 1877 -- Railroads -- Randolph, A. Philip -- Reader's Digest -- Real estate industry, commercial -- Real estate industry, residential -- Recession of 1937-1938 -- Rental industry -- Restaurant industry -- Retail Clerks International Union -- Retail trade industry -- Revolutionary War -- Rice industry -- RICO -- Robber barons -- Rockefeller, John D. -- Royal Charters of North American colonies -- Rubber industry -- Sales taxes -- S&P’s -- Savings & loan associations -- SBA -- Sears, Roebuck &Company -- SEC -- Second Bank of the United States -- Secret Service, U.S. -- Securities & Exchange Commission -- Security industry -- Seneca Falls conference -- September 11 terrorist attacks -- Service industries -- Servicemen’s Readjustment Act -- Sewing machines -- Sharecropping -- Shays's Rebellion -- Sherman Antitrust Act -- Shipping industry -- Sit-down strike of 1936 -- Slave era -- Slave trading -- Small Business Administration -- Social Security system -- Space race -- Spanish-American War -- Sports, intercollegiate -- Sports franchises -- Stagecoach line, first -- Stamp Act of 1765 -- Standard & Poor's -- Standard Oil Company -- Stanford, Leland -- Steamboats -- Steel industry -- Steel mill seizure of 1952 -- Stewart, Martha -- Stock market crash of 1929 -- Stock markets -- Sugar industry -- Supersonic jetliners -- Supply-side economics -- Supreme Court & banking law -- Supreme Court & commerce -- Supreme Court & contract law -- Supreme Court & labor law -- Supreme Court & land law -- Taft-Hartley Act -- Taiwanese trade with the United States -- Tariff of abominations -- Tariffs -- Taxation -- Tea Act of 1773 -- Teamsters -- Teapot Dome scandal -- Telecommunications industry -- Television broadcasting industry -- Television programming with business themes -- Tennessee Valley Authority -- Texas annexation -- Three Mile Island accident -- Thrift stores -- Time zones -- Tobacco industry -- Tourism industry -- Townshend Act -- Trade -- Trade unions -- Trading stamps -- Transatlantic cable -- Transatlantic steamer service -- Transcontinental railroad -- Transportation Department, U.S. -- Treasury Department, U.S. -- Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire -- Trickle-down theory -- Trucking industry -- Trump, Donald -- Truth in advertising code -- Truth-in-lending laws -- Tupperware -- Turnpikes -- TVA -- Tyco international scandal -- UFW -- UWMA -- Underwood Tariff Act -- United Farm Workers of America -- United Food & Commercial Workers -- United Mine Workers of America -- United States Steel Corporation -- USA today -- Utilities -- Vanderbilt, Cornelius -- Vending machines -- Video rental industry -- Vietnam War -- Wages -- Walker, Madame C. J. -- Wall Street -- Wall Street Journal -- Wal-Mart -- War of 1812 -- War surplus -- Warehouse & discount stores -- Wars -- Washington, Booker T. -- Washington, George -- Water resources -- Western Union -- Whaling industry -- Whiskey Tax of 1791 -- Whiskey Trust -- White-collar crime -- Wilderness Road -- Wobblies -- Women in business -- Woodworking industry -- World Trade Organization -- World War I -- World War II -- Zoning, commercial.