But he said job loss through industrial consolidation and international competition was not going to ease up.

Butte's labor-management harmony lasted through much of the 1890s, but did not survive the industrial consolidations that arrived with the turn of the century.

In a Europe that is moving toward economic unity by 1992, industrial consolidation across borders on a large scale is expected, Mr. Rosen said.

The production of these sectors went into period of decline when the respective bonanza of their international prices terminated, hence a true industrial consolidation was prevented.

Some have argued that the recent lack of job creation in the United States is due to increased industrial consolidation and growth of monopoly or oligopoly power.

Unfortunately, the end of the 19th century was a period of industrial consolidation, and Parton's relatively small businesses began to struggle.

While the 20th century opened with a wave of industrial consolidation aimed at forming domestic monopolies, today's mergers are driven by a desire to gain global reach.

News of the industrial consolidation arrived to newspapers in mid-January 1901.

Many spin-offs prospered in the 1970s and 1980s, but have recently left the area, due to industrial consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions.

Legal theorists have been gnawing on the issue of what makes a merger good or bad since the first great wave of industrial consolidation late in the 19th century.