https://www.worldcat.org/title/organizing-america-wealth-pow...
Archive.org don't appear to have this, though ZLibrary / LibGen do.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4468926W/Organizing_America
Which links to: https://archive.org/details/organizingameric00perr/
Assigned reading will frequently be listed on syllabi. Older versions can be found through the Wayback Machine, if posted online (and from the early 1990s through about a decade ago, many were, unfortunately, integrated school information systems have largely hidden these behind registration walls).
Also, their reorganization after each first generation of underhanded practices became recognized, otherwise attention could not have been as well diverted from the ability to leverage greed even more so than leverage the resources of the smaller investors.
Good historical reference sections on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stock_Exchange
>During the 17th century, stockbrokers were not allowed in the Royal Exchange due to their rude manners. They had to operate from other establishments in the vicinity, notably Jonathan's Coffee-House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Stock_Exchange
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine_Coffee_House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange
NYSE of course is where lots of the money ended up from the international slave trade, and not just from sales in North America.
Seems to me that's what allowed NYC to take the place of London as the world's financial center, since the UK frowned on slavery much eartier than the US.
Also early 20th century oil might have been the only thing with as good or better return than slavery had generated.
For international finance, early 20th century oil played a special role, not adequately described here.
As far as the parent comment about corporations "killing people" .. this is true but naive.. since the Romans and before, brutality was the norm, not the exception. Every educated person and most others knew about extreme forms of collective abuse, it had happened again and again. The very formation of civilization, including merchant and trade functions, was generally meant to be an improvement on past forms. Rarely, but with serious circumstance, some merchant company would rape and murder their way to fortune for a while. But karma is a bitch as they say, and those things did change. The tame history I cite above, was specifically aimed at making a better economic engine, for profit by ownership, which upon consideration was the chosen path.