The Industrial Revolution

 

 

The Civil War / war production

 

 

 

efficiency / productivity

 

Taylorism: industrial science

 

 

efficiency experts/The Gelbrets

 

innovation

patents & copyrights

 

 

cost-cutting

 

assembly line / immigrant labor

 

mass production

 

R & D Corporate research

 

 

 

price reduction

 

economy of scales

 

mass consumption

 

invention as a business

 

 

 

natural law of competition

 

vertical / horizontal integration

 

marketing / advertising

 

Menlo Park/Edison

 

 

 

Social Darwinism

 

combinations / monopolies

 

 

chemistry/micro-biology

 

 

 

rugged individualism

 

‘robber barons’ / ‘captains of industry’

 

 

 

self-reliance/Transcendentalism