Business Administration: Theory, Practice and Application. [Vol. 1] Business Economics

Another characteristic of modern manufacturing is exemplified in the 233 study of the iron and steel industry and the relation of capital, labor and product, as is also the conc...

The viaduct from Long Key is 2 miles long and passed through water having a depth ranging from 13 to 20 feet. The floor of the Gulf is of coral. To construct a pier, about 30 pi...

“It is therefore natural to expect that the blast furnace should be among the most thoroughly organized and most highly developed pieces of mechanism yet devised. It is certainl...

The increase in the production of manufactures in the United States, far in excess of home requirements, has forced our manufacturers to seek markets in other parts of the world...

The management, which immediately controls the records and conditions should be the prime source of efforts towards the increase of efficiency throughout the plant. The oppositi...

It has since been found necessary, however, to modify both the theory and practice of this extreme individualism in order to protect the interests of various classes of society,...

We may clearly recognize these facts and suppose them a sufficient explanation of the farther fact, that so many are thrown out of employment and find themselves the waifs of so...

Unfortunately the facilities for comparing the capitalization, product, etc., in 1905 with that of earlier years only extends, in its relation to all the factory industries, to...

Interest is the amount paid for the use of capital. From the time of 123 the church fathers in the Middle Ages down to the present-day socialists, interest and the private owner...

Important as is the subject of money and essential as is the need of a standard of undoubted goodness, it is overshadowed in practical significance by the problems of banking an...

Before the introduction of the factory system, under the so-called “domestic” system of industry, the laborer carried on his work in his own home, where he provided the raw mate...

There is one other natural resource the conditions of whose supply resemble those of forestry and of agriculture in general; this is the fisheries. With careful use, providing f...

“With the invention of the jenny and water frame,” says Ellison, “commenced a new era in the history of the cotton trade; in fact, so far as Europe is concerned, it may be said...

The life of properly made concrete is not known. However, specimens from the times of the Romans are yet in good condition. This material has very considerable ability to resist...

Another important contribution made by steam power to the development 188 of the manufacturing industry was the decrease in cost of transportation. Before the development of the...

At one extreme stands anarchism, which must be thought of not as anarchy and riot, but as a philosophical theory of society. Scientific anarchism contemplates an ideal state of...

The social value of this service lies in the equalization of demand and supply between the present and future that is thereby effected. Let us take as an illustration the case o...

The economic theory of profit-sharing is that by inducing greater care and diligence on the part of the employe he will himself create the fund from which he is paid. It is clai...

This was the first of the great triumphs of chemistry in the industrial 346 field. The significant point in this story of soda, is that those industries which were using the alk...

In no way does the State affect the interests of its citizens more vitally than in the sphere of taxation. The State in modern society is the people organized for certain collec...

In the United States the charcoal process was used until a period much later than that of its abandonment in England, for the supplies of timber were very great and men who were...

The causes of this rapid industrial development are enumerated by the census report as five in number: the agricultural resources of the country, the mineral resources, the high...

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The trust movement may be said to have begun with the formation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, but down to 1898 its progress was slow. Beginning with the revival of prosperi...

No other country than the United States takes a periodic census of its manufactures. The United Kingdom is at the present time about taking for the first time a census of its ma...

Intelligent unionists realize that they can secure the various objects for which they strive only by substituting collective bargaining for contracts between employers and indiv...

Thus, more than one-half of the domestic merchandise sent out of the United States to each grand division except Europe goes in the fully manufactured form, ready for consumptio...

As we have seen, sickness and old age are still more usual causes of poverty and unemployment than accident. All the arguments for compulsory insurance therefore apply with redo...

Reforms in our banking and currency laws, an extension of banking facilities to the working classes, the more careful regulation of railroad rates, reforms in methods of taxatio...

The factory acts may be divided into two classes, those that endeavor to secure the safe or healthful manner of conducting a business, and those that attempt to limit the occupa...

======+===========+===========+===========+============ | | | | | | | | Fiscal| | | Unmanu- | Year,| | | factured | Imports ending| Exports. | Imports. | silk | of crude June |...

==================================+====================+==================== | Steam Power. | Gas Power. +---------+----------+---------+---------- | British | | British | | the...

Industrial corporations afford ready means by which small capital and moderate men are compacted into a service quite beyond the range of individual producers. The difficulty ha...

IX. WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT WORK-- 80 Evils of Early Factory System--Expansion of Woman Labor--Why Women are Paid Lower Wages than Men-- Desirability of Employment of Women--Child...

But the difficult question at once suggests itself: How can the surplus incomes of the rich be used so as to provide for the needs 135 of the poor, without undermining their ind...

2. Compare the value of textile manufactures in the principal countries of Europe during the period from 1800 to 1896, inclusive, with that of the United States during the same...

=======+======================================== | Exports of domestic manufactures. -------+-------------+-------------+------------- | United | | United Year. | Kingdom. | Ger...

================================================== | Foodstuffs in | Foodstuffs partly | Year | crude condition | or wholly | ending | and food animals. | prepared. | June +----...

================================+======+==========+==============+ | | | | |Census|Number of | + Industry. | yr. |establish-| Capital. | | | ments. | | | | | | -----------------...

=========+============+==============+==========+===========+ | | | Per cent | | | | | of | | | Pig iron | Crude steel | domestic | Price | | produced | produced |iron used |per...

=====================+=====+==========+=============+=========+ | | Number of| |Number of| |Year.|establish-| Capital. | wage- | | | ments. | | earners.| ---------------------+-...

========================+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+ Country. | 1830. | 1840. | 1850. | 1860. | 1870. | ------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+---...

=================+======+==========+==============+=======================+ | | | | Wage-earners. | State or |Census|Number of | +---------+-------------+ Territory. | year.|est...

==================================+========================================+ | 1900.[V] | +--------------------+-------------------+ Group. | Gross. | Net. | +--------------+---...

MANUFACTURES-- census of, 207-211. why misleading in U. S., 207, 211, 268. concentration of, 33, 34. exported from U. S., 269-272. growth of, 30, 205-214. growth of investment i...