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Benevolent Barons - American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910 (Paperback)
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Benevolent Barons - American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910 (Paperback)
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American business has always had deep roots in community. For over
a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to
finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community
welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the
workplace as an extension of the community and poured millions into
schools, job training and adult education. Often criticized as
welfare capitalism, this system was unique in the world. Lesser
known capitalists like Peter Cooper and George Westinghouse led the
movement in the mid-1800s. Westinghouse in particular focused on
good wages and benefits. Robber barons like George Pullman and
Andrew Carnegie would later succeed in corrupting the higher
benefits of worker-centered capitalism. This is the story of those
accomplished Americans who sought to balance the accumulation of
wealth with communal responsibility.
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