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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy


Main Themes

Main Themes

1. How various factors (raw materials, labor supply, technology, business organization, growing markets, and friendly governments) combined to thrust the United States into worldwide industrial leadership.

2. How this explosion of industrial capitalism was both extolled for its accomplishments and attacked for its excesses.

3. How American workers, who on the average benefited, reacted to the physical and psychological realities of the new economic order.


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