THE AGE OF IRON
America's Industrial Revolution, the Robber Barons, and the Making of Modern America, 1865-1920By Susan Elaine Cromwell
Length6h 15m
About this audiobook
**In 1865, America made things by hand in small workshops.** By 1920, it was producing more steel than the rest of the world combined, lighting cities with oil, and binding a continent with iron rails. In just fifty-five years, a nation of farmers became the most powerful industrial economy on earth — and it tore itself nearly in half in the process.
You know the names: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan. You sense their decisions still shape the corporations you work for, the antitrust laws on the news, the inequality you can't ignore. But the textbook version reduces the most important economic revolution in modern history to a few faces in top hats. You're left without the real story — how the steel mills, the oil refineries, the factory floors, and the bloody strikes built the America you actually live in.
This book gives it to you.
**THE AGE OF IRON: America's Industrial Revolution, the Robber Barons, and the Making of Modern America, 1865–1920** puts you on the factory floor, in the boardroom, and at the breaker, where the modern economy was forged.
**Inside, you will discover:**
- **HOW** Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan engineered the corporations that still rule the economy
- **WHY** the Robber Barons earned the name — and what they genuinely built
- **THE BRUTAL TRUTH** about child labor, immigrant exploitation, and the workplace disasters of the Industrial Revolution
- **HOW** farmers, Progressives, and trust-busters fought back — from the Sherman Act to the Federal Reserve
- **WHY** the Making of Modern America still defines your paycheck, your politics, and your country
This isn't a parade of statues. It's the steel-and-sweat truth of how America became America.
The age was iron. The legacy is yours.
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Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Historical Fiction, Other
Length6 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Author’s Note
3Prologue: The Factory Nation
4PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS (1865-1880)
5Chapter 1: Steel — Andrew Carnegie and the Bessemer Revolution
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6Chapter 2: Oil — John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust
7Chapter 3: The Railroads — The Iron Network That Made a National Market
8Chapter 4: The Corporation — The New Business Form and Its Power
9PART TWO: THE ROBBER BARONS
10Chapter 5: Carnegie — Steel, Libraries, and the Gospel of Wealth
11Chapter 6: Rockefeller — Standard Oil and the Art of Monopoly
12Chapter 7: J.P. Morgan — Finance, Consolidation, and the Banker's Power
13Chapter 8: Vanderbilt, Gould, and Fisk — The Railroad Barons and Their Wars
14PART THREE: THE INDUSTRIAL CITY
15Chapter 9: Pittsburgh and Chicago — The Factory Cities
16Chapter 10: The Urban Poor — Tenements, Jacob Riis, and How the Other Half Lives
17Chapter 11: The Department Store and Consumer Culture — Macy's, Sears, and the New Commerce
18Chapter 12: Technology and Invention — Edison, Bell, and the Second Industrial Revolution
19PART FOUR: THE HUMAN COST
20Chapter 13: The Factory Worker — Hours, Wages, and Dangerous Conditions
21Chapter 14: Child Labor — The Mines, Mills, and the Children Who Worked Them
22Chapter 15: The Immigrant Worker — Ellis Island, the Ethnic Neighborhood, and Industrial Labor
23Chapter 16: Workplace Disasters — The Mines, the Mills, and the Price of Industry
24PART FIVE: THE REGULATORY RESPONSE
25Chapter 17: The Grange and Populism — Farmers Against the Railroads
26Chapter 18: The Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act
27Chapter 19: The Progressive Trust-Busters — Roosevelt, Taft, and the Breakup of Standard Oil
28Chapter 20: The Federal Reserve — Banking Reform and Financial Regulation
29PART SIX: LEGACIES
30Chapter 21: The American Standard of Living — What Industrialization Produced
31Chapter 22: The Corporate Economy — Big Business and Its Permanent Place in American Life
32Chapter 23: The Antitrust Tradition — From Sherman to the Twenty-First Century
33Chapter 24: The Industrial Legacy — Environmental Cost and Economic Transformation
34Epilogue: What Industry Made
35Acknowledgments
36Selected Bibliography
37About the Author
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