From the Book - Norton pbk. ed.
Genesis. First principles
Building with other people's money
A Railroad Life: H. K. Thomas
Annus Horribilis: 1873. Springtime in Mexico
The Indians' perpetual winter
A Railroad life: William Hyde
Antimonopoly and party politics
The Southern Transcontinental
A Railroad Life: Elias C. Boudinot
Spatial Politics. Absolute space
How railroad rates construct space
A Railroad Life: Alfred A. Cohen
Kilkenny Cats. Creative destruction
Rationalizing irrationality
Superheroes of bad management
A system that did not bury its dead
Mise en Scène: Labor in Nature
Men in Octopus Suits. The visible hand
Men and boys: manhood and management
A Railroad Life: William Mahl
Workingmen. Control of work
Contract labor and the Chinese
A Railroad Life: William Pinkerton
Looking Backward. Benevolent trusts
Waiting for natural monopoly
The Interstate Commerce Commission
The Interstate-Commerce Railway Association
Mise en Scène: The death of Johanna Grogan
Collapse. An Alcoholics Anonymous for railroads
The Second Fall of Henry Villard
The struggles of the Octopus
Mise en Scène: Reading the newspapers
Union Pacific and Great Northern
The decline of the Octopus
Mise en Scène: Following the detectives
Creative Destruction. Dumb growth