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Subject(s)

• Business ethics—United States—History—Sources [Browse]
• Corporations—Moral and ethical aspects—United States—History—Sources [Browse]
• Commercial law—United States—History—Sources [Browse]
• United States—Economic conditions—History—Sources [Browse]

Editor

• Shally-Jensen, Michael [Browse]

Series

• Defining documents in American history (Salem Press) [More in this series]
• Defining documents in American history

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Volume 1. From The Prince
• "Advice to a Young Tradesman"
• Adam Smith, from The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• Fletcher v. Peck
• Lowell Mill Girls
• From "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
• From The Life of P.T. Barnum
• Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade
• From Utilitarianism
• "The Money Power"
• Documents Relating to Black Friday, 1869
• Verse and Cartoon about Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
• Crédit Mobilier Scandal
• Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
• Andrew Carnegie: "The Gospel of Wealth"
• Eugene Debs: "What Can We Do for Working People?"
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• "Wall Street Owns the Country"
• Frick's Fracas--Henry Frick Makes His Case
• "The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over"
• From The Theory of the Leisure Class
• Coal Strike Hearings: The Miners Testify
• An Immigrant Garment Worker's "Days and Dreams"
• Theodore Roosevelt on Corporate Trusts
• "Echoes from the Recent Pennsylvania Coal Strike"
• Jane Addams: "Child Labor and Other Dangers of Childhood"
• From The Jungle
• Fire Hazards in New York City Factories
• Clayton Act
• On the Teapot Dome Scandal
• From My Life and Work, by Henry Ford.
• Volume 2. President Hoover Responds to the Stock Market Crash
• Stuart Chase: Waste and the Machine Age
• Memories of the Flint Sit-Down Strike
• From What Makes Sammy Run?
• From The Fountainhead
• From The Road to Serfdom
• From The Hidden Persuaders
• Eisenhower's Farewell Address
• Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
• Equal Pay Act
• From Unsafe at Any Speed
• "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits"
• The "Powell Memo": Attack on the Free Enterprise System
• Bill Gates: Letter to Hobbyists
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act--U.S. Justice Department Overview
• From The Culture of Narcissism
• "What Is Business Ethics?"
• United States v. Kelly--An "Abscam" Case
• "Greed Is Good"
• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Report to the President
• From Glengarry Glen Ross
• Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings
• Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Halliburton Overcharges Report
• Charging Document in the Case of Bernie Madoff
• Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act--A Synopsis
• Report on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
• "Countrywide Protected Fraudsters by Silencing Whistleblowers..."
• EPA Notice of Violation of Clean Air Act to Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
• Wells Fargo Account Fraud Scandal
• Summary of Letter Requesting Further Review of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and Memorandum Opinion re. Vacatur
• Equifax Data Breach Announcement
• Statement to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee concerning Cambridge Analytica
• From Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.

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ISBN

• 9781642652833
• 1642652830 (hardcover)
• 9781642654158 (hardcover : volume 1)
• 1642654159 (hardcover : volume 1)
• 9781642654165 (hardcover : volume 2)
• 1642654167 (hardcover : volume 2)

OCLC

1117592566

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