Making of the Modern World (Gale) Covers the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, steel, railway, and cotton industries as well as banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation. Documents the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism in the nineteenth century.