Business ethics

In: Defining documents in American history

Abstract

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.