The Industrial Revolution was a turning point in human history, marking the shift from agrarian societies to industrialized ...

Child labor might have shocked that outsider, but it was all too commonplace then across urban, industrial America (and on farms where it had been customary for centuries). In more recent times ...

In moments of crisis, it’s easy to think that capitalism is finished. But never forget the system’s formidable ability to ...

Capitalism’s greatest challenge may come from elsewhere, however: Mr. Cassidy’s earlier chapters on the Industrial Revolution offer a grim warning that enormous advances in automation are not ...

In the 18th century, merchant capitalism yielded to industrial capitalism; in the postwar era, Keynesianism yielded to neoliberalism. Cassidy, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, ...

With its industrial peers recovering from total war and the rest of the world still largely agrarian, U.S. firms and their junior partners abroad commanded a manufacturing oligopoly that ensured ...

In addition to growing bipartisan support for industrial policy, a second major threat to democratic capitalism is the ballooning national debt. America’s fiscal outlook is deeply troubling.

Iowa now allows those as young as 14 to work in industrial laundries. At age 16, they can take jobs in roofing, construction, excavation, and demolition and can operate power-driven machinery ...