Author : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Release : 2012-08-10
Genre : Business & Economics
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The Carnegie Boys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Carnegie Boys write by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.. This book was released on 2012-08-10. The Carnegie Boys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.