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American Railroad Politics, 1914-1920 by K Austin Kerr w/ Dust Jacket
American Railroad Politics 1914-1920 by K. Austin Kerr
American Railroad Politics 1914-1920
K. Austin Kerr
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
250 Pages
Copyright 1968
Contents
Preface / v
I
Introduction / 1
II
The Development of Railroad Politics to 1917 / 6
III
Railroad Politics and the Transportation Crisis of 1917 / 39
IV
Federal Control and Political Change:
Management and Labor / 72
V
Federal Control and Political Change:
Shippers and Commissioners / 101
VI
Scientific Management and the Framework of Railroad Politics:
1919 / 128
VII
Railroad Labor and the Politics of Efficiency / 160
VIII
The Shipper Defense of the regulatory System / 179
This book examines the concern of a variety of interest groups with federal policy toward the railroads, concentrating on the crucial years prior to the enactment of the Transportation Act of 1920. During these years a wide range of interests worked for greater federal participation in railroad af-fairslabor leaders and railroad executives, financiers, shippers, and government officials. Businessmen and farmers anticipated using federal regulation of the industry as a means of wielding greater bargaining power in the rate-making process. Railroad management, on the other hand, hoped that government regulation would eliminate the chaotic, unprofitable competition that had formerly beset the industry.
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