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Business genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency of Carnegie Steel. He later …
Business genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency of Carnegie Steel. He later …
The creation of wealth depends on the capacity of economic actors to adapt to market changes. Such adaptation, in turn, poses fundamental questions about the distribution of …
"e;For years I have been convinced that there is not an honest bone in your body. Now I know that you are a god-damned thief,"e; Henry Clay Frick reportedly told Andrew …
At its formation in 1901, the United States Steel Corporation was the earth s biggest industrial corporation, a wonder of the manufacturing world. Immediately it produced two …
In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people …
Paul Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history, intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology to situate the events of the lockout and their …
Named one of the fifty best books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly More than a century has passed since the infamous lockout at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company. The …
A detailed, carefully wrought business biography of Henry Clay Frick, one of the leading entrepreneurs in American heavy industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth …
This classic account of the worker in the steel industry during the early years of the twentieth century combines the social investigator s mastery of facts with the vivid personal …