The Machine Age(1877-1900) AKA The Gilded Age
Assembly Line Production
12 -14 hour workday
One mistake results in many injuries
Corporate Consildation
Businesses getting larger and larger
Bc court was very pro business
Gov’t unsure how to enforce
Holding Companies
Held certain amount of stock in industry
Usually meant it controlled the industrya
Factors of production
Leads to monopoly
Horizontal integration
Cartels
John D rockafeller
Standard oil
illegal
Verticle Integration
Own all factors of production in an industry
Allowed smaller businesses to “compete”
Legal
Both integrations practiced by captains of industry for guilded age
Created class of extremely powerful men
Interests not as same as society
Leads to Sherman Anti Act of 1890
Stops business from combination of conspiracy in restraint of trade
Supreme Court found loophole
Allowed businesses go
But condemned unions
Ex) EC knight owned 98% of sugar refining......

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