Examples of Carnegie Steel Company in the following topics:
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- Andrew Carnegie built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company and became the second-richest man in the country.
- He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H.
- Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S.
- Carnegie combined his assets and those of his associates in 1892 with the launching of the Carnegie Steel Company.
- To this end, he needed to buy out Carnegie and several other major producers and integrate them into one company, thereby eliminating duplication and waste.
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- One of the first company towns in the United States was Pullman, Chicago, developed in the 1880s just outside the Chicago city limits.
- The town, entirely company-owned, provided housing, markets, a library, churches, and entertainment for the 6,000 company employees and an equal number of dependents.
- Another famous company town was McDonald, Ohio, which was created by the Carnegie Steel Company to house and serve the needs of its employees in the Youngstown, Ohio area.
- At their peak there were more than 2,500 company towns, housing 3% of the US population.
- Mill towns, sometimes planned, built, and owned as a company town, grew in the shadow of the industries.
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- After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company he merged in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, to form the United States Steel Corporation.
- He moved to New York City in 1858, where he worked at the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Company, the American representatives of George Peabody & Company.
- By 1864–1872, he was a member of the firm of Dabney, Morgan, and Company.
- Morgan & Company" in 1895, and retained close ties with Drexel & Company of Philadelphia, Morgan, Harjes & Company of Paris, and J.S.
- Morgan & Company (after 1910 Morgan, Grenfell & Company), of London.
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- Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W.
- In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897.
- Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
- With the fortune he made from the steel industry he built Carnegie Hall, later he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
- After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company he merged in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, to form the United States Steel Corporation.
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- Andrew Carnegie, owner of Carnegie Steel, placed industrialist Henry Clay Frick in charge of his company's operations in 1881.
- If no contract was reached, Carnegie Steel would cease to recognize the union.
- Within 20 minutes they had displaced the picketers; by 10:00 a.m., company officials were back in their offices.
- The AA offered to make no demands or set any preconditions; the union merely asked that Carnegie Steel reopen the negotiations.
- The company could not operate for long with strikebreakers living on the mill grounds, and permanent replacements had to be found.
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- Theodore Vail established the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.
- Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company to consolidate the oil industry—which mostly produced kerosene before the automobile created a demand for gasoline in the 20th century.
- Andrew Carnegie, John D.
- In 1870, Carnegie erected his first blast furnace and by 1890 dominated the fast-growing steel industry.
- Carnegie did give away his fortune, creating many institutions such as the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now part of Carnegie Mellon University) to upgrade craftsmen into trained engineers and scientists.
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- The September strike shut down half the steel industry as the steel companies had seriously misjudged the strength of worker discontent.
- The steel companies played on nativist fears by noting that a large number of steelworkers were immigrants.
- Wilson's stroke in September 1919 prevented government intervention; this inaction gave state and local authorities and steel companies room to maneuver.
- Steel companies also turned toward strikebreaking and rumor-mongering to demoralize the picketers.
- Identify the contributing factors to the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and how steel companies took advantage of the post-war Red Scare to end the strike.
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- Andrew Carnegie, for one, built a giant steel empire using vertical integration, a business tactic that increased profits by eliminating middlemen from the production line.
- Laborers organized themselves into unions to negotiate with companies.
- The companies, however, attempted to shut down labor unions.
- The companies sometimes retaliated against strikes by suing the unions.
- Though the Sherman Act was intended to target trusts, the companies sued the union under it, claiming that unions obstructed interstate commerce.
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- A synergy between iron and steel, railroads and coal developed at the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution.
- Standard Oil), dominated in steel, oil, sugar, meatpacking, and the manufacture of agriculture machinery.
- Other major components of this infrastructure were the new methods for manufacturing steel, especially the Bessemer process.
- The first billion-dollar corporation was United States Steel, formed by financier J.
- Morgan in 1901, who purchased and consolidated steel firms built by Andrew Carnegie and others.
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- Steel mills thrived in places where these coal and iron ore could be brought together to produce steel.
- Pierpont Morgan in banking, and Andrew Carnegie in steel.