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- Andrew Carnegie
- Born november 25 1835
- age 12 left scotland
- six years after coming he became a secretary for the railroad
- was able to buy stock and left the railroad company in 1865
- bought a steel mill and made more there than all of britain
- sold the steel mill and started working on other things
- died aprill 11 1899
- Management
- Tried to make better products for cheaper
- bribed people with stock
- Vertical integration - a process in which he bought out all supplies
- Horizontal integration - he would by out the other companies that were failing due to his supply
- Social Darwinism
- States who have the fittest will strive in the society
- poor were automatically weak and lazy
- people who believed in darwinism thought they were superior
- rich and poor classes
- lazy and uneducated put into poverty
- poor people would ruin the society
- Andrew Carnegie believed rich should be richer
- Mergers
- one coporation buys the stock of another and forms a monopoly
- John D Rockefeller
- Attracted to the oil business
- Treated workers equally he wanted the future good will of his partners and employees
- Labor union
- A union of workers working together to get a better pay
- Northern wages were generally higher than southern ones
- would go on strike
- factory workers worked 12 or more hours a day and 6 days a week
- Andrew Carnegie
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