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• The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change (originally published 1975; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Louis Galambos, contrib. by Barbara Barrow Spence (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)
• The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry, by Burton J. Hendrick (Gutenberg text)

• Facts and Fascism (New York: In Fact, c1943), by George Seldes, contrib. by Helen Seldes (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Reindustrialization: The Menace Behind the Promise (1981), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• How Big is Big Business? (CIO pamphlet #158; second printing, 1949), by Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) Department of Education and Research (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Capitalism Versus Socialism, by Daniel De Leon and William H. Berry (PDF at slp.org)
• Plutocracy or Nationalism: Which? (an extra of The Nationalist; 1889), by Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Antitrust Laws: A Primer (fourth edition; Washington: AEI Press, 2001), by John H. Shenefield and Irwin M. Stelzer (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets: Majority Staff Report and Recommendations (2020), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Trusts and Public Welfare: An Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Commencement Exercises of the Indiana Law School, May 29, 1901, at the Grand Opera House, Indianapolis (Indianapolis: Hollenbeck Press, 1901), by Augustus Lynch Mason (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Competition Laws in Conflict: Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global Economy (Washington: AEI Press, c2004), ed. by Richard Allen Epstein and Michael S. Greve (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• An Introduction to the Law of Corporations: Cases and Materials (current edition; at last check 2019), by Brian Jose Miguel Quinn (JavaScript-dependent HTML at opencasebook.org)

• Illegal Corporate Behavior (Washington: National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, c1979), by Marshall B. Clinard, Peter C. Yeager, Jeanne Brissette, David Petrashek, and Elizabeth Harries
  • partial serial archives
  • PDF with commentary at ojp.gov

• The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation (Washington: AEI Press, 2002), by Roberta Romano (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Multinationals and the U.S. Technology Base: Final Report of the Multinationals Project (OTA-ITE-612; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Multinationals and the National Interest: Playing by Different Rules (OTA-ITE-569; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Advanced Technology Program: Challenges and Opportunities (1999), by National Research Council Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Technology in the National Interest, by National Science and Technology Council (HTML at ta.doc.gov)
• Effective Partnering: A Report to Congress on Federal Technology Partnerships, ed. by Richard Brody (PDF at nist.gov)

• The Travelers Legal Guide and Business Man's Directory: Being the Duties of Railroad Companies, and Steamboat and Stage-Coach Proprietors, in the Transportation of Passengers, Baggage, and Other Property, And Their Responsibilities Relative To Accidents, Injuries to, and the Loss of Property, etc. (Rochester, NY: D. M. Dewey, 1855), by Alexander S. Davis (page images at Ohio Memory)

• Facts for the People: A Report of the Anti-Monopoly League of the State of New York, the Record of the Legislature of 1883 (page images at MOA)

• Power and Accountability, by Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow (HTML at lens-library.com)

• Capital Adjustments: Reorganizations, Stock Rights (2 volumes; 1962), by Prentice-Hall, Inc. (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Railroad Politics, 1914-1920: Rates, Wages, and Efficiency (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1968), by K. Austin Kerr (page images at Pitt)
• Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1871), by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams, and Francis Amasa Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Progress of the Union Pacific Railroad West from Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent, by Union Pacific Railroad Company (page images at MOA)
• Railroad Reorganization (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1908), by Stuart Daggett (PDF at McMaster)
• Let Freedom Ride the Rails (1954), by National Negro Labor Council (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highways of Progress (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1910), by James J. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Grange Movement: or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies, by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• Railroad Workers Forward! (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William Z. Foster (PDF at flvc.org)
• History of Railroad Strikes: A History of the Railroad Revolt of 1877; the American Railroad Union Strike on the Great Northern in 1894 and its Participation in the Pullman Car Strikes of the Same Year; the Eight-Hour-Day Strike of 1917 and the Runaway Switchmen's Strike of 1920 (Washington: Brotherhood Pub. Co., 1935), by O. D. Boyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Railroaders' Next Step: Amalgamation (Labor Herald Library #1; second edition; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1922), by William Z. Foster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Railroad Reorganization (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1908), by Stuart Daggett (PDF at McMaster)

• The Railroad Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, by John Moody (Gutenberg text)
• An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Railroad Passenger Train Deficit (docket #31954; ca. 1959), by United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Railway Review (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Railway Association of America (partial serial archives)
• The Frisco Employes' Magazine (published under that title starting in 1923), by St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (partial serial archives)
• The Frisco-Man (published under that title from the early 1900s through the early 1920s; with some earlier Frisco system periodical issues), by St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (partial serial archives)
• Southern Pacific Bulletin (volumes from 1918-1921 readable online in the US), by Southern Pacific Company (partial serial archives)

• Railroad Safety: U.S.-Canadian Comparison (OTA-T-95; 1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Evaluation of Railroad Safety (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Locating the Iron Trail (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1925), by Edward Gillette (page images at HathiTrust)

• Freight Car Distribution and Car Handling in the United States (Washington: Association of American Railroads, Car Service Division, c1956), by Eugene W. Coughlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Road (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• American Railroad Politics, 1914-1920: Rates, Wages, and Efficiency (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1968), by K. Austin Kerr (page images at Pitt)
• The Financial Viability of CONRAIL: Review and Analysis (1975), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Monopolies and the People (third edition, 1873), by D. C. Cloud (page images at MOA)
• The Granger Movement; A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (reprint; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1963), by Solon J. Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Granger Movement: A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (Harvard Historical Studies v19; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913), by Solon J. Buck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• History of the Grange Movement: or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies, by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

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