Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368836757
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Pennsylvania Railroad. Investigating committee, 1874
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Railroads
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY.
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Albert J. Churella
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1621 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0253066379
By 1933, the Pennsylvania Railroad had been in existence for nearly ninety years. During this time, it had grown from a small line, struggling to build west from the state capital in Harrisburg, to the dominant transportation company in the United States. In Volume 2 of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Albert J. Churella continues his history of this giant of American transportation. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the world's largest business corporation and the nation's most important railroad. By 1917, the Pennsylvania Railroad, like the nation itself, was confronting a very different world. The war that had consumed Europe since 1914 was about to engulf the United States. Amid unprecedented demand for transportation, the federal government undertook the management of the railroads, while new labor policies and new regulatory initiatives, coupled with a postwar recession, would challenge the company like never before. Only time would tell whether the years that followed would signal a new beginning for the Pennsylvania Railroad or the beginning of the end. The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Age of Limits, 1917–1933,represents an unparalleled look at the history, the personalities, and the technologies of this iconic American company in a period that marked the shift from building an empire to exploring the limits of their power.
Author : Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674417690
The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution. The managerial revolution, presented here with force and conviction, is the story of how the visible hand of management replaced what Adam Smith called the “invisible hand” of market forces. Chandler shows that the fundamental shift toward managers running large enterprises exerted a far greater influence in determining size and concentration in American industry than other factors so often cited as critical: the quality of entrepreneurship, the availability of capital, or public policy.
Author : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher : Chicago, University Press [1912]
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
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Author : Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Pennsylvania
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Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Author : Alfred Dupont Chandler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674940529
The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (1850s–1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and central sectors of production and distribution.
Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher :
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Legislative journals
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