Business Elites Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Pt. I	Social Origins and Social Mobility
1	Long-Term Changes in the Recruitment of the Business Elite: Germany Compared to the U.S., Great Britain, and France since the Industrial Revolution	3
2	Social Mobility and the American Business Elite	23
3	The American Industrial Elite in the 1870's: Their Social Origins	53
4	The Reality of the Rags-to-Riches "Myth": The Case of the Paterson, New Jersey, Locomotive, Iron, and Machinery Manufacturers, 1830-1880	72
5	Rags to Riches Revisited: The Effect of City Size and Related Factors on the Recruitment of Business Leaders	99
Pt. II	Education, Culture and Mentality
6	Gentlemen and Players	125
7	Victorian Society: Accommodation and Absorption	150
8	The English Civic Universities and the "Industrial Spirit", 1870-1914	169
9	Public Schools and the Decline of the British Economy 1870-1914	184
10	Technical Education and the French Entrepreneur	204
11	Entrepreneurship in a Late-comer Country: The German Case	241
12	The Personality and Career of Hikojiro Nakamigawa, 1887-1901	283
Pt. III	Social Profiles
13	Anatomy of the British Business Elite, 1860-1980	309
14	The Situation of West German Industry in the Early Postwar Period	330
15	Rulers of the Ruhr: Leadership and Authority in German Big Business before 1914	361
16	Entrepreneurs in Heavy Industry: Upper Silesia and the Westphalian Ruhr Region 1852 to 1913	386
17	Financial Elites in Three European Centres: London, Paris, Berlin, 1880s-1930s	400
18	Bankers in French Society, 1860s-1960s	419
19	A British Business Elite: The Chief Executive Managers of the Railway Industry, 1850-1922	433
20	The Increasing Power of Salaried Managers in Japan's Large Corporations	461
21	A Business Elite: German-Jewish Financiers in Nineteenth-Century New York	488
22	The Chicago Business Elite: 1830-1930. A Collective Biography	524
Pt. IV	Wealth and High Society
23	Wealth, Elites and the Class Structure of Modern Britain	567
24	Very Wealthy Businessmen in Imperial Germany	595
25	The Titled Businessman: Prussian Commercial Councillors in the Rhineland and Westphalia during the Nineteenth Century	618
26	Bankers in English Society in the Late Nineteenth Century	646
27	British and European Bankers, 1880-1914: An "Aristocratic Bourgeoisie"?	666
	Name Index	687