Naomi R. Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904, (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985).
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 3d ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947), 74.
I quote Dobbin because he is rightfully so influential and because so much of his analysis is superb.
Frank Dobbin, Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993), 39.
The standard account here is Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997).
Herbert Hovenkamp, Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991), 320-21.