The Industrial Economy

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The Industrial Economy

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Suit by the United States Against the Workingman's Amalgamated Council of New Orleans (1893)

Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

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Why were the government and the courts so reluctant to regulate the industrial economy?

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What is the common argument in these documents?

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What image of the American economy do these documents form?

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