Contents Series Introduction ix Volume Introduction xv Acknowledgments xxvii Issues of the 20th Century xxix Corporate Capital in the Morgan Era 1 Overview 1 Timeline 6 The Morgan Era 6 The Leisure Class 13 The Managerial Revolution 18 The “One Best Way” 23 Welfare Capitalism 30 Biographies 42 References and Further Readings 47 Working-Class Life in Industrial America 53 Overview 53 Timeline 58 “All the Livelong Day”: The Changing Meaning of Work 59 The American Federation of Labor and Craft Unionism 72 The House of Labor Responds 80 New Workers and New Unions 84 v
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