Andrew Carnegie: Captain Of Industry

Andrew Carnegie, a business leader who had started from nothing but rags and worked his way up to amass an incredible wealth. As a successful tycoon, Carnegie outstandingly expanded the steel market and provided jobs to many people. He responded to his workers outbursts with caution and the mindset of improving their standard of living. Not to mention the various acts of philanthropy he underwent after the prosperous reign he had as a business man. Carnegie was a captain of industry because he gained a supreme amount of money and affected the United States in a positive light, paving the way for future business moguls.
In his lifetime, Carnegie was responsible for greatly improving the steel industry, including its production. He managed to

He in no way forced himself into a higher status by crushing other small business with the purpose in mind of destroying them. He emigrated from Scotland to the U.S at age 13, at the time his family was quite poor and his mother worked strenuously to produce the money they need to come to the states. He got his first job when he was 13, in a textile factory which would call for 12 hour workdays of piling coal into furnaces. He eventually made his way into the railroad industry, working his way up until he became the personal assistant to Thomas Scott, railroad superintendent. He helped Scott greatly as an assistant and as time went on, eventually came forward and took over for Scott in times of need, such as the crisis of which workers were going to go on strike. As described here, Carnegie was a self made, respectably-rooted man which is key in the difference between a captain of industry and a robber baron. At heart he was good, and he earned his respective money fairly. Later on when he had his own factory, working alongside Henry Clay Frick, Frick wanted to intensify worker conditions and was very strict about the worker strikes, he wanted to take severe actions. He wanted to resort to more acute actions, however Carnegie told him to back off a little bit and go easy on the workers. Carnegie being pro-union really defines him more on the side as a Captain of industry, he condemned the act of breaking strikes as he felt

He retired in 1901, as he had just become the richest man in the world making over $350 dollars in his lifetime, he graciously donated mass amounts of his enormous fortune to various locations. He donated much of his money to charity, about 10 million, however something that lay very important in his eyes was education. Throughout his life he felt that education was something that was vitally important to one’s life, so he founded the Carnegie Institute of Technology which was a place where men and women of the working class could come to learn various basic skills. This institution was founded in 1900, several years later it became the well known college, Carnegie Mellon. This left a huge mark on the nation as it was and is a very high profile college that many people know and consider to be of higher status. Carnegie also valued reading and books, as he read many of them as a young boy. He spent millions of dollars in funding over 3,000 libraries across the U.S. He felt this was important because as a child, he did not have these luxuries of having a library in his hometown, as he grew up in harsh poverty. Another important thing to carnegie was world peace. In 1911 Carnegie established the Carnegie Endowment for international peace in the Netherlands. The fact that he thought to found such an