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All articles tagged: industrialization

Best Business Books 2020: Narratives

November 9, 2020 by Bethany McLean

Gunning for history

Related tags: best business books, china, economics, industrialization, manufacturing, technology
Management lessons of The True Believer

July 23, 2020 by Daniel Akst

A 20th-century working-class philosopher has a lot to teach modern workers — and managers — about finding meaning in life, and on the job.

Related tags: business books, industrialization, leadership, management
The business of America, in a nutshell

May 26, 2020 by Daniel Akst

In his new book, American Business History, Walter A. Friedman offers a highly concise history of free enterprise in the United States.

Related tags: business books, entrepreneurship, history, industrialization, management
Tales of the original Industrial Revolution

April 27, 2020 by Daniel Akst

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Victorian-era novel North and South has a great deal to teach us about the enduring tensions between progress and prosperity, industry and labor, and rural and urban life.

Related tags: business books, industrialization, labor, technology, unions
Yes, Henry David Thoreau Was an Industrial Innovator

January 14, 2019 by Daniel Akst

We can learn valuable lessons from the transcendentalist writer’s forays into the family pencil business.

Related tags: business literature, industrialization, innovation, leadership, technology

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