The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business : An Encyclopedia

Throughout history, important commercial developments in the United States have made it possible for American companies to leverage tough economic conditions to survive—even thrive in a volatile marketplace. This reference book examines the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business and illustrates their influence on the labor laws, business practices, and management methodologies of corporate America today. __The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia__ depicts the chronological order of events contributing to the evolution of American business, with an emphasis on the commercial innovations of each period. The book explores the origins of successful brands, including Apple, Wal-Mart, and Heinz; demonstrates the successful collaboration between public and private sectors illustrated by the Erie Canal, Hoover Dam, and the interstate highway system; and depicts the commercial impact of major economic events from the Panic of 1857 to the Great Recession of 2010. Contents 7 Preface 12 Acknowledgments 13 Introduction 14 Privatization of the Plymouth Colony (1623) 17 Navigation Acts (1651) 18 (1776) 21 Patent and Copyright Statutes (1790) 24 “Report on Manufacturing” (1791) 26 Whiskey Rebellion (1794) 28 Jefferson Embargo (1807) 32 First Steamboat to New Orleans (1811) 34 National Road (1811) 37 Erie Canal (1825) 39 Tariff of Abominations (1828) 42 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1828) 44 Whig Party Evolves (1834) 46 Panic of 1837 50 Automated Sewing Machine (1846) 52 Revolution, Famine, and Immigration (1848) 55 Clipper Ships (1849) 58 Western Union Telegraph Company (1851) 61 Great Exhibition of 1851 64 Transatlantic Cable (1857) 66 Panic of 1857 69 Overland Travel and Mail Service (1859) 72 Abraham Lincoln Establishes Protectionism (1860) 75 World’s Largest Cannon/ Civil War Technology (1864) 77 Transcontinental Railroad Completed (1869) 80 Westinghouse Air Brake (1869) 83 Panic of 1873 85 Andrew Carnegie’s First Steel Mill (1875) 88 Centennial Exposition (1876) 90 First Commercial Telephone (1877) 93 Great Railroad Strike of 1877 96 World’s First Skyscraper (1884) 98 War of the Currents (1885) 101 Sears Mail Order Business (1886) 104 Haymarket Riot (1886) 106 ALCOA Aluminum Formed (1888) 109 McKinley Tariff of 1890 112 Homestead Strike of 1892 115 Panic of 1893 120 Chicago World’s Fair (1893) 123 Pullman Strike (1894) 126 Niagara Falls Power Plant (1896) 128 Paternal Capitalism—Homestead and Wilmerding, Pennsylvania (1896) 131 First Electric Sign (Product Branding and Advertising)—H. J. Heinz (1900) 135 First Billion-Dollar Corporation— United States Steel (1901) 138 Henry Ford Wins Race of the Century (1901) 141 Owens Automated Glass Bottle–Making Machine (1904) 144 Upton Sinclair’s Jungle (1905) 147 Panic of 1907 149 Highland Park Ford Assembly Line (1910) 152 Scientific Management (1911) 155 Standard Oil Antitrust Lawsuit (1911) 157 Income Tax (1913) 161 Federal Reserve Act (1913) 163 Commercial Flight (1914) 166 Panama Canal Opens (1914) 169 General Motors Corporation Formed (1916) 171 Great Steel Strike of 1919 174 First Commercial Radio (1921) 178 Hawthorne Studies Begin (1924) 180 Talking Movies— The Jazz Singer (1927) 182 Stock Market Crash/ Great Depression (1929) 185 Hoover Dam (1931) 189 National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) (1935) 191 Social Security Act (1935) 193 Television at the 1939 World’s Fair 196 Maslow’s Theory of Needs (1946) 198 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1947) 200 First Credit Card (1950) 202 UNIVAC I (1951) 205 Shippingport Atomic Power Station (1956) 207 Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 209 First Mass-Produced Transistor Radio (1957) 211 First Japanese Auto Sold in the United States (1958) 213 Steel Strike of 1959 216 America Targets the Moon (1961) 219 McDonald’s Launches Golden Arches (1962) 221 Telstar Communications Satellites (1962) 224 First Wal-Mart (and Kmart) Open (1962) 226 IBM 360 Computer (1964) 229 Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) 231 ARPAnet (Earliest Internet) Formed (1969) 234 Wage and Price Controls (1971) 236 Arab Oil Embargo (1973) 238 First Customer Scan of a Bar Code (1974) 241 The Year of the PC (1977) 243 Three Mile Island Nuclear Failure (1979) 245 IBM Personal Computer (1982) 248 FCC Approves Advanced Mobile Phone System (1G) (1982) 250 Deindustrialization of America— General Tire Akron Closes (1982) 252 CD-ROM (1985) 255 Savings and Loan Crisis (1986) 257 W. Edwards Deming Publishes Out of the Crisis (1986) 259 Amazon.com (1994) 262 Bill Gates Internet Memo (1995) 264 Google Incorporated (1998) 266 First 3G Networks and the Smartphone (2003) 269 RFID at Wal-Mart (2005) 271 Banking Crisis and Great Recession (2008) 273 General Motors Bankruptcy (2009) 276 Appendix: Primary Documents 279 Bibliography 317 Index 329 Página em branco 316 978-0-313-39862-9,-,The,100,most,significant,events,in,American,business,:,an,encyclopedia 978-0-313-39862-9 - The 100 most significant events in American business : an encyclopedia This reference book details the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business, featuring case studies of successful companies who challenged traditional operating paradigms, historical perspectives on labor laws, management practices, and economic climates, and an examination of the impact of these influences on today's business practices.Throughout history, important commercial developments in the United States have made it possible for American companies to leverage tough economic conditions to survive—even thrive in a volatile marketplace. This reference book examines the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business and illustrates their influence on the labor laws, business practices, and management methodologies of corporate America today.The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia depicts the chronological order of events contributing to the evolution of American business, with an emphasis on the commercial innovations of each period. The book explores the origins of successful brands, including Apple, Wal-Mart, and Heinz; demonstrates the successful collaboration between public and private sectors illustrated by the Erie Canal, Hoover Dam, and the interstate highway system; and depicts the commercial impact of major economic events from the Panic of 1857 to the Great Recession of 2010.

Throughout history, important commercial developments in the United States have made it possible for American companies to leverage tough economic conditions to survive—even thrive in a volatile marketplace. This reference book examines the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business and illustrates their influence on the labor laws, business practices, and management methodologies of corporate America today.

The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia depicts the chronological order of events contributing to the evolution of American business, with an emphasis on the commercial innovations of each period. The book explores the origins of successful brands, including Apple, Wal-Mart, and Heinz; demonstrates the successful collaboration between public and private sectors illustrated by the Erie Canal, Hoover Dam, and the interstate highway system; and depicts the commercial impact of major economic events from the Panic of 1857 to the Great Recession of 2010.

Throughout history, important commercial developments in the United States have made it possible for American companies to leverage tough economic conditions to survive--even thrive in a volatile marketplace. This reference book examines the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business and illustrates their influence on the labor laws, business practices, and management methodologies of corporate America today. The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia depicts the chronological order of events contributing to the evolution of American business, with an emphasis on the commercial innovations of each period. The book explores the origins of successful brands, including Apple, Wal-Mart, and Heinz; demonstrates the successful collaboration between public and private sectors illustrated by the Erie Canal, Hoover Dam, and the interstate highway system; and depicts the commercial impact of major economic events from the Panic of 1857 to the Great Recession of 2009