"Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers--NAM--helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. The Industrialists traces the history of the advocacy group from its origins to today, examining its role in shaping modern...

Introduction: Imagining a Confederate economy -- Shifting cultivation, slavery, and economic development -- Agricultural reform and state activism -- Explaining Lieber's paradox : railroads, state building, and slavery -- Redefining free trade to modernize the South -- Economic nationalism and...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Underpinnings, Precursors, and Development of the NIRA -- 3. The NIRA Code Negotiation Process -- 4. The President's Reemployment Agreement of August 1933 -- 5. Codes of Fair Competition: Industrial Planning and Collusion under the NIRA...

Introduction -- The underpinnings, precursors, and development of the NIRA -- The NIRA code negotiation process -- The president's reemployment agreement of August 1933 -- Codes of fair competition: industrial planning and collusion under the NIRA -- The NIRA compliance mechanism in theory and...