Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Sowing an "Equity Culture" -- 1 Reeling from the Great Crash -- 2 Experimenting with Advertising -- 3 Marketing the "Own Your Share" Program -- 4 Courting Retail Investors during the Cold War -- 5 Selling Stocks on the Monthly Plan -- 6...

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Emergence of the American First-Class Hotel, 1820s: "All at Hand, and All of the Best" -- 2 The Tremont House, Boston, 1829: "A Style Entirely New" -- 3 The Proliferation of Antebellum Hotels, 1830-1860: "Every Thing Is on a Gigantic Scale" -- 4 The...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Rise of Corporate Resorts -- 2 Working in Las Vegas -- 3 The First Work Stoppages -- 4 The Struggle for the Casinos -- 5 Workplace Incidents -- 6 Fighting for Equal Rights -- 7 The Spirit of '76 -- 8 Management Digs In, 1982- 1984 --...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Punched Cards and the 1890 United States Census -- 2 New Users, New Machines -- 3 U.S. Challengers to Hollerith -- 4 The Rise of International Business Machines -- 5 Decline of Punched Cards for European Census Processing -- 6 Punched Cards for General...

Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- 1 DuPont and the Rise of Chemical Engineering -- 2 From Ammonia to Nylon: Technologies and Careers -- 3 Culture and Politics at DuPont before World War II -- 4 The Forgotten Engineers of the Bomb -- 5 The Heyday and Decline of Chemical Engineering...

The rise of corporate resorts -- Working in Las Vegas -- The first work stoppages -- The struggle for the casinos -- Workplace incidents -- Fighting for equal rights -- The spirit of '76 -- Management digs in, 1982-1984 -- The strike of 1984-1985

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Industrializing the Southern Forest -- Chapter Two. Logging the Mills -- Chapter Three. Making Paper -- Chapter Four. Appropriating the Environment -- Chapter Five. New South, New Nature -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index...