https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk Made with love en-us 2017-12-18 13:10:08 UTC 2017-12-18 13:59:19 UTC hello@padlet.com dudmor https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216928970 Morgan Dudley]]> 2017-12-18 13:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216928970 dudmor https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216929662 Born:  November 25, 1835
Died: August 11, 1919
A Scottish born American who drove the expansion of the steel economy. Started his work in the Pennsylvania Railroad but left in 1865 for the lucrative steel business. ]]> 2017-12-18 13:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216929662 dudmor https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216932668 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Carnegie
http://www.history.com/topics/andrew-carnegie
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carnegie/aa_carnegie_phil_1.html


]]> 2017-12-18 13:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216932668 dudmor https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216934660 "In the early 1870s, Carnegie co-founded his first steel company, near Pittsburgh. Over the next few decades, he created a steel empire, maximizing profits and minimizing inefficiencies through ownership of factories, raw materials and transportation infrastructure involved in steel-making. In 1892, his primary holdings were consolidated to form Carnegie Steel Company."
http://www.history.com/topics/andrew-carnegie ]]> 2017-12-18 13:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216934660 dudmor https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216936252 When Carnegie first arrived in the United States he got a job as a bobbin boy at a cotton factory making $1.20 a week. He then went on to be a messenger at a telegraph office and held a position as a railroad at division manager. In the 1870's he entered the steel industry where he became a very wealthy man. He sold the Carnegie Steel Company in 1901 to John Morgan for $480 million.  ]]> 2017-12-18 13:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216936252 dudmor https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216940836 After retiring at the age of 66 Andrew Carnegie devoted the rest of his life to donating his riches to charity and forming institutes that supported furthering education and learning opportunities. In 1902 he founded the Carnegie Institution to fund scientific research and donated $10 million to form a teachers pension. ]]> 2017-12-18 13:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216940836 dudmor https://padlet.com/dudmor/8gn0xsn51dyk/wish/216944904 "His reputation was marred by a violent labor strike in 1892 at his Homestead, Pennsylvania, steel mill. After union workers protested wage cuts, Carnegie Steel general manager Henry Clay Frick (1848-1919), who was determined to break the union, locked the workers out of the plant. Andrew Carnegie was on vacation in Scotland during the strike, but put his support in Frick, who called in some 300 Pinkerton armed guards to protect the plant. A bloody battle broke out between the striking workers and the Pinkertons, leaving at least 10 men dead. The state militia then was brought in to take control of the town, union leaders were arrested and Frick hired replacement workers for the plant."
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