What factors led to the economic success of industrial capitalism in America after 1877? How were business practices organized and new technologies harnessed in order to maximize profits in American industry? What were the working conditions of American industrial laborers, and how and why did American workers seek to improve their working conditions in the late nineteenth century? And how things changed.

What factors led to the economic success of industrial capitalism in America after 1877? How were business practices organized and new technologies harnessed in order to maximize profits in American industry? What were the working conditions of American industrial laborers, and how and why did American workers seek to improve their working conditions in the late nineteenth century? And how things changed.