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Mcgraw Hill — Investor Presentation (2012)
21 slides from Mcgraw Hill's investor presentation, 2012
Slide 1: Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e: Chapter 17 Industrial Supremacy
Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
Slide 2: Highlights
Highlights Sources of Industrial Growth Capitalism and Its Critics Industrial Workers in the New Economy 2 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 3: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth Smokestacks (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) 3 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 4: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth Industrial Technologies – New Steel Production Techniques – Pittsburgh – Rise of the Petroleum Industry Pioneer Oil Run, 1865 (Library of Congress) 4 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 5: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth The Airplane and the Automobile – Henry Ford – The Wright Brothers The Wright brothers (Library of Congress) 5 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 6: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth Research and Development – Corporate Research and Development – Transformation of Higher Education Thomas Edison (Library of Congress) 6 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 7: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth The Science of Production – “Taylorism” – Moving Assembly Line Railroad Expansion – Rapid Expansion of the Railroad Standard time 7 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 8: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth Railroads, 1870-1890 8 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 9: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth The Corporation – Limited Liability – Andrew Carnegie – New Managerial Techniques 9 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 10: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth Andrew Carnegie (Portrait Gallery) J.P. Morgan (Portrait Gallery) 10 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 11: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth Consolidating Corporate America – Horizontal and Vertical Integration – Rockefeller’s Standard Oil 11 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 12: Sources of Industrial Growth
Sources of Industrial Growth The Trust and the Holding Company – The Trust Agreement – Rapid Corporate Consolidation 12 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 13: Capitalism and Its Critics
Capitalism and Its Critics The “Self-Made Man” – Myth of the Self-Made Man Survival of the Fittest – Social Darwinism – Justifying the Status Quo Cornelius Vanderbilt (Portrait Gallery) 13 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 14: Capitalism and Its Critics
Capitalism and Its Critics The Gospel of Wealth – Russell Conwell – Horatio Alger Alternative Visions – Lester Frank Ward – Henry George – Looking Backward 14 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 15: Capitalism and Its Critics
Capitalism and Its Critics The Problems of Monopoly Monopoly blamed for: – Artificially high prices – Unstable economy – Increasing Inequality 15 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 16: Industrial Workers in the New Economy
Industrial Workers in the New Economy The Immigrant Workforce – New Sources of Immigration – Heightened Ethnic Tensions Wages and Working Conditions – Loss of Control Inspection room at Ellis Island, NY (Library of Congress) 16 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 17: Industrial Workers in the New Economy
Industrial Workers in the New Economy Women and Children at Work – Poorly Paid Women – Ineffective Child-Labor Laws The Struggle to Unionize – National Labor Union – Molly Maguires Rutherford B. Hayes (Library of Congress) 17 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 18: Industrial Workers in the New Economy
Industrial Workers in the New Economy The Great Railroad Strike – National Strike The Knights of Labor – Dissolution of the Knights of Labor 18 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 19: Industrial Workers in the New Economy
Industrial Workers in the New Economy The AFL – Opposition to Female Employment – The AFL’s Agenda – Haymarket Square 19 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 20: Industrial Workers in the New Economy
Industrial Workers in the New Economy The Homestead Strike – Henry Clay Frick – The Union Defeated The Pullman Strike – Eugene Debs Inside the Homestead plant (Library of Congress) 20 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 21: Industrial Workers in the New Economy
Industrial Workers in the New Economy Sources of Labor Weakness – Shifting Nature of the Workforce – Corporate Strength 21 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.