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A Century Passing: Carnegie, Steel and the Fate of Homestead

Autor Richard Krooth
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 ian 2004
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761824152
ISBN-10: 0761824154
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1 List Tables and Figures
Chapter 2 Forward
Chapter 3 Acknowledgements
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 A Century Passing: Walks Around Homestead
Chapter 6 The Hidden Dynamics of Homestead: Empire Builders & Arms Contractors; Tariffs and Employers, Machines and Workers
Chapter 7 Conflict Without End: Strike, Commune & the Occupation: The Great Homestead Strike; Origins of the Homestead Commune; Homestead's New Elite; Homesteaders, Carnegie Property and the State: The Legal Scenarios Illuminating the Military Occupation; The
Chapter 8 The New Stage of Stabilization: Homestead in the Aftermath; Homestead as Metaphor
Chapter 9 Bibliography
Chapter 10 Index
Chapter 11 About the Author

Recenzii

Krooth offers a highly detailed and well-researched account of Homestead's history...It will appeal to those interested in the industrial history of Homestead or the wider south-west Pennsylvania area. Scholars of industrial relations should also findthe text useful...