Author: Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
The History of the Standard Oil Company
Author: Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Refining Nature
Author: Jon Wlasiuk
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822983249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company’s founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency. Economic success masked the dark side of efficiency as Standard Oil dumped oil waste into public waterways, filled the urban atmosphere with acrid smoke, and created a consumer safety crisis by selling kerosene below congressional standards. Local governments, guided by a desire to favor the interests of business, deployed elaborate engineering solutions to tackle petroleum pollution at taxpayer expense rather than heed public calls to abate waste streams at their source. Only when refinery pollutants threatened the health of the Great Lakes in the twentieth century did the federal government respond to a nascent environmental movement. Organized around the four classical elements at the core of Standard Oil’s success (earth, air, fire, and water), Refining Nature provides an ecological context for the rise of one of the most important corporations in American history.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822983249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company’s founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency. Economic success masked the dark side of efficiency as Standard Oil dumped oil waste into public waterways, filled the urban atmosphere with acrid smoke, and created a consumer safety crisis by selling kerosene below congressional standards. Local governments, guided by a desire to favor the interests of business, deployed elaborate engineering solutions to tackle petroleum pollution at taxpayer expense rather than heed public calls to abate waste streams at their source. Only when refinery pollutants threatened the health of the Great Lakes in the twentieth century did the federal government respond to a nascent environmental movement. Organized around the four classical elements at the core of Standard Oil’s success (earth, air, fire, and water), Refining Nature provides an ecological context for the rise of one of the most important corporations in American history.
Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
Author: Paul Henry Giddens
Publisher:
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Challenge and Response
Author: Emmett Dedmon
Publisher:
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
Author:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
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Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
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The American Federationist
Author: William Green
Publisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Includes separately paged "Junior union section."
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Includes separately paged "Junior union section."
Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Survey of American Listed Corporations
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
Book Description
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
Book Description
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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