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Carnegie Steel Company. Carnegie Steel Company was a steel -producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century. The company was formed in 1892, and was subsequently sold in 1901 in one of the largest business ...
Political cartoon, of boss with whip, which is critical of Andrew Carnegie for lowering wages even though protective tariffs were implemented for industry. The strikers were determined to keep the plant closed. They secured a steam-powered river launch and several rowboats to patrol the Monongahela River, which ran alongside the plant. Men also ...
Signature. Carnegie as he appears in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Andrew Carnegie (English: / kɑːrˈnɛɡi / kar-NEG-ee, Scots: [kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; [2][3][note 1] November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the ...
Homestead Steel Works was a large steel works located on the Monongahela River at Homestead, Pennsylvania in the United States. The company developed in the nineteenth century as an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a railway 425 miles (684 km) long, and a line of lake steamships. The works was also the site of one of ...
Andrew Carnegie, by contrast, had a much more checkered reputation. But it wasn’t because of a lack of ethics per se. Instead, it was because Carnegie was unreliable — some refused to deal ...
The Carnegie Boys: The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie that Changed America (McFarland, 2012). Seely, Bruce E., ed The Iron and Steel Industry in the 20th Century (1994) (Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography) Temin, Peter. Iron and Steel in Nineteenth-Century America, An Economic Inquiry (1964) Wall, Joseph Frazier. Andrew ...
A deepening in 1889 of the Long Depression led most steel companies to seek wage decreases similar to those imposed at Homestead. [22] In 1893, Carnegie defeated an AA union drive at the Duquesne steelworks. In 1885, Carnegie ousted the AA at the Edgar Thomson works. [23] An organizing drive at the Homestead plant in 1896 was crushed by Frick.
Richard A. Gregory wrote The Bosses Club, The conspiracy that caused the Johnstown Flood, destroying the iron and steel capital of America (2011), a historical novel that proposes a theory of the involvement of Andrew Carnegie and other wealthy American industrialists in the Johnstown Flood, told through the lives of two survivors.