Books.

General Histories. Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience (1973). Thomas C. Cochran and William Miller, The Age of Enterprise (1942). Carl Degler, The Age of the Economic Revolution (1977). John A. Garraty, The New Commonwealth (1968). Ray Ginger, The Age of Excess (1963). Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism, 1885--1914 (1957). Robert L. Heilbroner, The Economic Transformation of America (1977). Robert Higgs, The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865--1914 (1971). Edward C. Kirkland, Industry Comes of Age: Business, Labor, and Public Policy, 1860--1897 (1961). Walter Licht, Industrializing America: the Nineteenth Century (1995). Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982). Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1968).

Technology. Robert W. Bruce, Bell (1973). Roger Burlingame, Engines of Democracy: Inventions and Society in Mature America (1940); Henry Ford (1957). Robert Conot, A Streak of Luck (1979). Richard N. Current, The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It (1954). George Daniels, Science and Society in America (1971). Frank E. Hill, Ford (1954). Thomas P. Hughes, Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880--1930 (1983). Paul Israel, Edison: A Life of Invention (1998). Judith McGaw, Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801--1885 (1988). Martin V. Melosi, Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America (1985). Elting E. Morison, Men, Machines, and Modern Times (1966). Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (1934). Allan Nevins, Ford, 3 vols. (1954--1962). David F. Noble, America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (1977). Leonard S. Reich, The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876--1926 (1985). Nathan Rosenberg, Technology and American Economic Growth (1972). Peter Temin, Steel in Nineteenth Century America (1964). Wyn Wachhorst, Thomas Alva Edison: An American Myth (1981). Sara E. Wermeil, The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. (2000). Frederick A. White, American Industrial Research Laboratories (1961).

Railroads. Eric Arnesen, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001). Lee Benson, Merchants, Farmers, and Railroads (1955). Edward G. Campbell, The Reorganization of the American Railroad System (1938). Thomas C. Cochran, Railroad Leaders (1953). Robert Fogel, Railroads and American Economic Growth (1964). Sarah H. Gordon, Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929 (1997). Edward C. Kirkland, Men, Cities, and Transportation, 2 vols. (1948). Gabriel Kolko, Railroads and Regulation, 1877--1916 (1965). George H. Miller, Railroads and the Granger Laws (1971). Richard C. Overton, Burlington West (1941); Gulf to Rockies (1953). John F. Stover, The Life and Decline of the American Railroad (1970); The Railroads of the South, 1865--1900 (1955). David O. Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 (1999). George R. Taylor and I. D. Neu, The American Railroad Network, 1861--1890 (1956). Anthony F. C. Wallace, St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry (1987).

The Corporation. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise (1962); The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977). Pierre S. DuPont and the Making of the Modern Corporation (1971); The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977); Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (1990). David F. Hawkes, John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers (1980). Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons (1934). Maury Klein, The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (1986). Norma R. Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895--1904 (1985). Harold C. Livesay, Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business (1975). Allan Nevins, Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller, 2 vols. (1953). Glenn Porter and Harold C. Livesay, Merchants and Manufacturers (1971). Joseph Wall, Andrew Carnegie (1970). Bernard Weisberger, The Dream Maker (1979). Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1870--1920 (1990).

Ideologies. Charles A. Baker, Henry George (1955). Robert C. Bannister, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought (1967). Samuel Chugerman, Lester F. Ward: The American Aristotle (1939). Sidney Fine, Laissez Faire and the General Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865--1901 (1956). Louis Galambos, The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880--1940 (1975). Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought (rev. ed., 1955). Edward C. Kirkland, Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860--1900 (1956). T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880--1920 (1981). Robert G. McCloskey, American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise (1951). Arthur E. Morgan, Edward Bellamy (1944). Daniel T. Rodgers, The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850--1920 (1978). David Thelen, Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri (1986). John L. Thomas, Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and the Adversary Tradition (1983). Robert H. Wiebe, Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy (1995). Irvin G. Wylie, The Self-Made Man in America (1954).

Labor. Eric Arnesen, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001). Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy (1984). Mary H. Blewett, Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England (2000). John Bodnar, Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town (1977). David Brundage, The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905 (1994). Stanley Buder, Pullman (1967). John T. Cumbler, Working-Class Community in Industrial America (1979). Henry David, The Haymarket Affair (1936). Ileen A. DeVault, Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh (1990). Melvyn Dubofsky, Industrialism and the American Worker, 1865--1920 (1975). Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine, eds., Labor Leaders in America (1987). P. K. Edwards, Strikes in the United States, 1881--1974 (1981). Leon Fink, Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1983). Samuel Gompers, Seventy Years of Life and Labor, 2 vols. (1975). David M. Gordon, Richard Edwards, and Michael Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States (1982). Brian Greenberg, Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850--1884 (1985). Herbert G. Gutman, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (1976). Howell John Harris, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (2000). Willam F. Hartford, Working People of Holyoke: Class and Ethnicity in a Massachusetts Mill Town, 1850--1960 (1990). Stuart Kaufman, Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor (1978). Kevin Kenny, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (1998). Alexander Keyssar, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (1986). Howard Kimeldorf, Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement (1999). S. J. Kleinberg, The Shadow of the Mills: Working-Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870--1907 (1989). David Montgomery, Beyond Equality (1975); Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles (1979); The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1987). Daniel Nelson, Managers and Workers: Origins of the New Factory System in the United States, 1880--1920 (1975). Richard J. Oestreicher, Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness: Detroit, 1875--1900 (1986). Henry Pelling, American Labor (1960). Craig Phelan, Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor (2000). Peter Rachleff, Black Labor In Richmond, 1865--1890 (1984). Roy Rosenzweig, "Eight Hours for What We Will": Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870--1920 (1983). Steven J. Ross, Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788--1890 (1985). Peter R. Shergold, Working Class Life (1982). Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore, ed. The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics (1999). David O. Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 (1999). Sheldon Stromquist, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (1987). Philip Taft, The A. F. of L. in the Time of Gompers, 2 vols. (1957--1959). Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century (1993). Daniel J. Walkowitz, Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton Workers Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855--1884 (1978). Leon Wolff, Lockout: The Story of the Homestead Strike of 1892 (1965).

Women. Mary Blewett, Men, Women, and Work Culture: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry (1988). Patricia Cooper, Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 (1987). Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999). Elliott J. Gorn, Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (2001). Tamara Hareven, Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship Between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community (1982). Paula Hyman, Charlotte Baum, Sonya Michel, The Jewish Woman in America (1975). Susan E. Kennedy, If All We Did Was to Weep at Home: A History of White Working-Class Women in America (1979). Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982). Susan Levine, Labor's True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age (1984). Shirley Ann Moore and Quintard Taylor, Eds. African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 (2003). Elizabeth Anne Payne, Reform, Labor, and Feminism (1988). Barbara Wertheimer, We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America (1977).

The Left. Mari Jo Buhle, Women and American Socialism, 1870--1920 (1981). Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (1969). Gerald N. Grob, Workers and Utopia (1961). J. H. M. Laslett, Labor and the Left (1970). Margaret M. Marsh, Anarchist Women: 1870--1920 (1981). Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982).

Films.

Andrew Carnegie and Business Ideology (GPN, 1981). 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation (American Social History Film Project, 1985). The Iron Road (PBS Video, American Experience, 1990).

Internet Resources.

The Art of Making Money Plenty - http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/currierives/art.htm
The Path to the Telephone - http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/albell/introduction.html
The Frederick Winslow Taylor Archive - http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~rdowns/intro.html