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The Carnegie Boys: The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America

The Carnegie Boys: The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America

Skrabec, Quentin R.

Paperback

Business BiographiesBusiness General19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0786464550
ISBN13: 9780786464555
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Aug 13 2012
Pages: 247
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas, but it evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business circles. By 1925, these Carnegie lieutenants controlled more than 60 percent of the country's industrial assets. Haunted by their past with Carnegie Steel, they demanded a new ethical relationship with labor and adopted a philanthropic philosophy of paternal capitalism, building libraries, churches, schools, and hospitals. Ultimately, their experiments in industrial democracy and progressive industrialism failed, but their efforts formed the root of future cooperative management and employee participation. This chronicle of the evolution and legacy of this influential association offers a new, more complex perspective on Carnegie and demonstrates how he and his lieutenants helped to shape America's view of capitalism.

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