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Regulating Railroad Innovation
Author | : Steven W. Usselman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521001064 |
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A study of America's efforts to regulate expanding railroad technology.
Regulating Railroad Innovation
Author | : Steven W. Usselman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 0511119720 |
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The Train and the Telegraph
Author | : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781421429755 |
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A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.
Working Knowledge
Author | : Catherine L. Fisk |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780807833025 |
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Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their "property," or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundati
Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age
Author | : Ross Thomson |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2009-05-08 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780801896620 |
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The United States registered phenomenal economic growth between the establishment of the new republic and the end of the Civil War. Ross Thomson's fresh study accounts for the unprecedented technological innovations that helped propel antebellum growth. Thomson argues that the transition of the United States from an agrarian economy in 1790 to an industrial leader in 1865 relied fundamentally on the spread of technological knowledge within and across industries. Essential to this spread was a dense web of knowledge-diffusing institutions—new occupations and industries, the patent office, machine shops, mechanics’ associations, scientific societies, public colleges, and the civil engineering profession. Together they composed an integrated innovation system that generated, disseminated, and employed new technical knowledge across ever-widening ranges of the economy. To trace technological change in fourteen major industries and the economy as a whole, Thomson analyzes 14,000 patents, the records of two dozen machinery firms, census data for 1,800 companies, and hundreds of business directories. This exhaustive research leads to his interesting interpretation of technological diffusion and development. Thomson's impressive study of the infrastructure that fueled and supported the young country’s economic and industrial successes will interest students of economic, technological, and business history.
Ruling Passions
Author | : Richard R. John |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780271045702 |
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"This work was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Policy History (vol. 18, no. 1, 2006)"--T.p. verso.
The Texas Railroad Commission
Author | : William R. Childs |
Publsiher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business and politics |
ISBN | : 1585444529 |
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Before OPEC took center stage, one state agency in Texas was widely believed to set oil prices for the world. The Texas Railroad Commission (TRC) evolved from its founding in 1891 to a multi-divisional regulatory commission that oversaw not only railroads but also a number of other industries central to the modern American economy: petroleum production, natural gas utilities, and motor carriers (buses and trucks). William R. Childs's unprecedented study of the TRC from its founding until the mid-twentieth century extends our knowledge of commission-style regulation. It focuses on the interplay between business and regulators, between state and national regulatory commissions, and among the three branches of government through a process of "pragmatic federalism." Drawing on extensive primary research, Childs demonstrates that the alleged power of regulatory commissions has been more constrained than most observers have recognized. As he shows, the myth of power was devised by the agency itself as part of building a civil religion of Texas oil. Together, the myth and the civil religion enabled the TRC to convince Texas oil operators to follow production controls and thus stabilized the American oil industry by the 1940s. The result of this fascinating study is a more nuanced understanding of federalism and of regulation, the forces shaping it, and its outcomes.
Death Rode the Rails
Author | : Mark Aldrich |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2006-04-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0801882362 |
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"The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--BOOK JACKET.