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(1848–1909), railroad financier.

Born in Hempstead, New York, Edward Henry Harriman began his business career as a Wall Street stockbroker, but soon became a railroad financier by...

The entrepreneur is a leading character in many accounts of economic growth. He appears in business biographies as a charismatic founder of a company; in industry studies as a prominent ...

Fashion has been a phenomenon of collective behavior since the fourteenth century. Yet as an industry in the United States, it did not exist until the beginning of the nineteenth ...

(1856–1925), manufacturer of tobacco products, philanthropist.

James “Buck” Duke, the son of Washington Duke and Artelia Roney Duke, was born on the family's farm in Orange County,...

(1850–1924), American labor leader.

President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) for all but one of its first thirty-seven years (1886–1924), Samuel Gompers was a leading...

1 See stock exchange.

2 A market in which livestock are bought and sold.

The history of women in the American labor force has been shaped by diverse cultural, legal, demographic, and ethno-racial influences. Like men, women in preindustrial America contributed...