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Defining Documents in American History: Business Ethics offers an in-depth analysis of 67 primary source documents at the foundation of the study of business ethics. These include letters, newspaper accounts, book excerpts, speeches, political debates, testimony, firsthand accounts, memoirs, court r...
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Grey House Publishing,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Volume 1. Publisher's note-- Editor's introduction
- Contributor list
- [Part 1]. Early efforts - and failings
- 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
- [Part 2]. Moving toward the modern
- 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.
- [Part 3]. Crisis and renovation
- 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
- [Part 4]. Enterprise and ethics in the late Twentieth Century
- 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
- [Part 5]. Big business and big government of today
- 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
- [Part 6]. Appendixes
- Chronological list
- Web resources
- Bibliography
- Index.