Table of contents : Acknowledgments......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Introduction......Page 12 Chapter 1: Labor Resists......Page 13 Worker Productivity and Malfeasance......Page 14 Workers and Compensation......Page 15 Discontented Workers......Page 16 An Unholy Alliance......Page 18 The Perils and Discontents of Coal Mining......Page 19 Unionization in Coal Mining......Page 22 Aspects of the Coal Mining Industry......Page 23 Exploitation or Not......Page 26 Employer Welfare Capitalism......Page 29 Workers Unite......Page 32 Conflicts Within Unions Over Hours......Page 34 Safety Legislation......Page 36 More Leisure at Work......Page 38 Minimum Wage......Page 39 Women in the Labor Force......Page 44 Conclusion......Page 47 Bibliography......Page 49 Chapter 2: Early Nineteenth-Century Changes......Page 54 Is Technology Good?......Page 55 Importance of Information......Page 56 Early Nineteenth-Century Views of Business Morality......Page 57 Low Status of Businessmen......Page 60 Success Manuals......Page 62 American Get-Ahead Attitude......Page 65 Forms of Business Organizations......Page 70 Types of Corruption......Page 73 Conclusion......Page 76 Bibliography......Page 77 Chapter 3: Examples of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Business Ethics in America......Page 81 Perpetual Hope, Frequent Failure on the American Frontier......Page 82 Profiting from Bankruptcy......Page 84 Identifying Bankrupts......Page 85 Conclusion......Page 87 Adulterating Food and Drugs......Page 88 Ethical Quandary of Third-Party Sellers......Page 91 Calls for Regulation......Page 92 Regulations’ Limitations......Page 94 Wartime Ethics......Page 95 Business Ethics Aspects......Page 96 Antecedents of Corruption......Page 97 Early Days of Chaos......Page 98 Financing the War......Page 100 Trade Between the Belligerents......Page 101 Conclusion......Page 104 Bibliography......Page 106 Chapter 4: Rise of Industrialization......Page 110 Origins of the “Robber Baron” Concept......Page 111 The Industrialists and Their Critics......Page 114 Precursors to Mass Markets......Page 120 To Mass Produce or Not to Mass Produce......Page 121 Telegraphs......Page 122 Railroads in America......Page 124 Railroad Rates......Page 127 Conclusion......Page 130 Bibliography......Page 131 Chapter 5: Ethics of the Firm and Strategic Behavior......Page 134 Unfair Competition......Page 135 Sources of Monopoly Power......Page 137 Predatory Pricing......Page 140 Bribery and Government-Provided Services......Page 141 Corruption During Industrialization......Page 144 Financing Large-Scale Industry......Page 150 Counterexamples......Page 152 Surprising Effects on Labor......Page 157 Other Nations React Differently......Page 158 Conclusion......Page 161 Bibliography......Page 163 Chapter 6: John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil......Page 167 The Animus Toward Rockefeller and Standard Oil......Page 168 Rockefeller’s Early Days......Page 170 Standard Oil’s Goals......Page 171 Eradicating Competition......Page 175 Standard Oil’s Organization......Page 177 Standard Oil Meets Texans......Page 179 Supreme Court Breaks Up Standard Oil......Page 180 Conclusion......Page 181 Bibliography......Page 183 Chapter 7: Rise of the Big Retail Merchants......Page 185 Caveat Emptor......Page 186 Drummers and Traveling Salesmen......Page 187 Retail Experience, Circa 1840s......Page 189 Early American Retailers......Page 191 Creating a New Shopping Experience......Page 193 Mail-Order Retailing......Page 194 Catering to the Lower-Income Groups......Page 200 Resistance to Large Retailers......Page 203 Working Conditions......Page 204 Forming a Better Class of Retail Workers......Page 206 Women and Retailing......Page 207 Consumer Malfeasance and Shoplifting......Page 208 Modern-Day Shoplifting......Page 211 Sources of Scandals......Page 213 Conclusion......Page 214 Bibliography......Page 217 Chapter 8: Early Twentieth-Century Aspects......Page 220 Softening Attitudes to Big Business......Page 221 Perceived State of Business Ethics in the Early 1900s......Page 222 Early Proponents of Prosperity Gospel......Page 226 Christian Moralists During the Progressive Era......Page 228 Corporate Social Responsibility and Stewardship......Page 230 Secular Approaches......Page 231 Progressive Era Regulation......Page 233 New Forms of Policing Unethical Behavior......Page 234 Advertising......Page 238 Executives Begin Using Public Relations Campaigns......Page 241 Early Twentieth-Century Buccaneers......Page 244 Alleged Stock Market Manipulations......Page 247 Conclusion......Page 253 Bibliography......Page 255 Consumer Activism......Page 259 Value of Life......Page 260 Auto Safety......Page 263 Safety Sells?......Page 266 Ford Pinto Case......Page 268 Ford’s Culpability......Page 270 The Pinto Goes to Court......Page 273 Conclusion......Page 275 Bibliography......Page 277 History of Scammers......Page 280 State-Run Lotteries......Page 282 Ponzi Schemes and Investor Gullibility......Page 288 Social Security as Ponzi Scheme......Page 292 Government Versus Business Ethics......Page 295 Conclusion......Page 298 Bibliography......Page 299 Ancient Views Concerning the Poor......Page 303 The Church’s Example......Page 308 John Wesley and the Problem of Wealth......Page 310 Theories of Just Income and Wealth Distributions......Page 311 As Economists See It......Page 314 Modern-Day Disparities in Income and Wealth......Page 317 CEO Pay......Page 319 High Price of Being Poor......Page 320 Ethics of Charity......Page 321 Industrialists and Philanthropy......Page 325 Conclusion......Page 327 Bibliography......Page 329 Chapter 12: What About the Children?......Page 334 The Precarious Lives of Children......Page 335 Children in the Labor Market......Page 337 Treatment of Child Labor......Page 340 A Childhood Experiment Gone Awry......Page 342 Children and Consumerism......Page 344 Do You Know What Your Children Are Watching?......Page 346 The Horror, the Horror—Crime and Horror Comics......Page 348 Rock’n’Roll and Payola......Page 351 Children’s Television......Page 355 Conclusion......Page 357 Bibliography......Page 360 The Sad Collapses of Enron and Arthur Andersen......Page 364 Conclusion......Page 367 Bibliography......Page 368 Index......Page 369