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A Century Passing - Carnegie, Steel and the Fate of Homestead (Paperback, New)
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A Century Passing - Carnegie, Steel and the Fate of Homestead (Paperback, New)
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In A Century Passing, Richard Krooth examines one of the great
entrepreneurs of the late 19th century, documenting his epic,
egregious struggle to accumulate wealth and power, regardless of
the toll in human misery and fiber. Andrew Carnegie had well
positioned himself financially and came to exercise dominance in
the 19th century steel industry. By careful planning to introduce
the latest technical inventions, taking away the skills of his
elite workers and impoverishing the rest, he pressured his labor
force into the seminal strike at his Homestead works in 1892. The
leaders of the Homestead's craft union responded militantly, going
beyond the pale of union tradition. Victorious, Carnegie not only
subserviated his labor force and made them fearful of losing their
jobs, he initiated a new stage of "proletarianization" in his
company-ruled towns, laying the foundation for keeping labor on tap
over the next 100 years.
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