I.  Introduction:  The Sprit of Individualism

A.  Horatio Alger's "Rags to Riches" Stories
B.  From "Republican" to "Mainstream" Ideals

II.  The New Industrial Economy

A.  Steel and Transportation
B.  Business Efficiency:  Mechanization and Scientific Management

III.  Celebrating Individualism

A.  Robber Barons or Industrial Statesmen?
        1.  Critics and Defenders
        2.  Tremendous Economic Disparity
B.  Gospel of Wealth
C.  Social Darwinism
D.  Laissez-Faire
E.  Free Markets and Competition

IV.  Consequences to the Worker

A.  A Cog in the Wheel
B.  Abhorrent Working Conditions
        1.  Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911
C.  Child Labor in America

V.  Labor and the Challenge to the New Order

A.  The Great Strike of 1877
B.  Knights of Labor
C.  The American Federation of Labor (AFL)
D.  Radical Socialists and Anarchists
E.  Haymarket Riot 1886
F.  Homestead Steel and Pullman Strikes
G.  International Workers of the World (aka Wobblies)