MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
- find ways to make better products cheaper.
- Vertical Integration- a process in which he bought out his suppliers in order to control the systems.
- Horizontal Integration- companies producing similar products merge.
- he only wanted people that are talented.
SOCIAL DARwism
- social Darwinism was started by Charles Darwin
- social Darwinism means that the states who have fittest will strive in the society
- those who were poor were automatically weak and lazy
- the people who believed in Darwinism though that they were superior
- there was only two classes in social Darwinism the rich and poor.
- Andrew Carnegie didn't believe in favoring the poor
- bad for those businesses because they didn't have good workers
Labor Unions Emerge
- labor union is a union of workers working together to get better pay.
- northern wages were generally higher than the southern.
- labor unions were formed in the year 1866 by William syvis who was an iron worker.
- factory workers worked 12 or more hours a day, 6 days a week.
- vacation was not an option.
- 675 laborers are killed due to work related activities a week.
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