American Entrepreneur, Chapter 6: Entrepreneurs in the Age of Upheaval, 1850-1880

Impact of the Civil War on the economy of the North, the South and the West; impact of emancipation, mass marketing and production of consumer products (food, cigarettes), revolution in steel production, development of financial markets, increasing size of business, negative image of business, anti-trust, decline of the Southern economy after the Civil War, effect of high tariffs on the economy, dissatisfaction of the farmers, why farm income was down, manufacturing employeeAÆs changing work, immigrationAÆs effect on business, federal government attempts to control big business, progress and problems of unions. People discussed include Jay Cooke, James Duke, Henry Heinz, Joseph Campbell, John Dorrance, William C. Procter, James Gamble, Gustavus Swift, Andrew Jackson Beard, Elijah McCoy Swift, Isaac Singer, Henry Hammett, George Gray, Daniel Tompkins, John Gates, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, George Post, George Westinghouse, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, A. P. Seabrook, P.T. Barnum, and Samuel Gompers.