Economic Impacts of the Industrial Revolution

  • Adam Smith Publishes Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith Publishes Wealth of Nations

    Promoted Private Ownership and a Free Market, Supply Demand, and "Invisible Hand", Capitalism as a concept
  • Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

    A short book on how the disparity between the upper and working class is far too great, how workers should own the means of production, and how the working class should eventually revolt
  • HSBC

    HSBC

    hsbc is first established
  • Standard Oil Company

    Standard Oil Company

    oil refiner company
  • De Beers

    De Beers

    Cecil Rhodes establishes De Beers
  • United Fruit Company

    United Fruit Company

    Corporation based on fruit trade
  • Dole Food Company

    Dole Food Company

    agricultural corporation is established/taken over by James Dole and Sanford Dole
  • Unilever- plc

    Unilever- plc

    consumer goods company is established