Order Against Chaos: Business Culture and Labor Ideology in America, 1880-1915

by Sarah Lyons Watts

Historians now mark the years between 1880 and 1915 as the beginning of mass culture in the United States and its consolidation under the ideals and values of private corporations. In this study, Sarah Lyons Watts contends that modern American attitudes toward the relationship between labor and capital, as well toward the place industrial labor was to occupy in the corporate state, coalesced in the debates in popular, business, and professional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313275882
• ISBN13: 9780313275883
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"