Social History of Economic Decline: Business, Politics, and Work in Trenton

by John T. Cumbler

Overview

Nineteenth-century Trenton, New Jersey, was a booming commercial and manufacturing center for iron, rubber, steel cables, machine tools, and pottery. Trenton's golden age lasted until the 1920s, when many local industries were bought out by national companies. The story of the subsequent social, political, and economic decline of Trenton is also the story of twentieth-century urban America. John Cumbler analyzes the decline of Trenton in terms of the transition from civic capitalism to national capitalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813513744
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	06/01/1989
Series:	Class and Culture Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

JOHN T. CUMBLER is Professor of History at the University of Louisville. 

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Golden Era: Civic Capitalism
3. Labor and Community
4. Politics: Struggle and Reform
5. Tarnishing of Gold
6. Civic Capitalism to Nationalism Capitalism: 1920-1930
7. Depression, War, and Recovery: 1929-1949
8. Changing Work and Changing Workers
9. Grasping for Solutions
10. Trenton as America
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Notes
Bibliography
Index