Andrew Carnegie's Rise In The Steel Industry

The gilded age was a time where men built great empires. Within their businesses and companies around the nation there was a time of horror for many working people. Across the nation there was terrible violence in labor work which affected immigrants, African Americans, women, and sadly children.

During this time in the gilded age, men were arising with new technology. For example, Andrew Carnegie who was born in Scotland and moved into the United States and became one of the wealthiest men as he was grew in the steel business. Carnegie co-founded his own steel company with many new ways of creating and using steel faster and cheaper, which led him to dominate the steel industry. He eventually had a lot of work for people; however many of them

As a very competitive man he bought out other oil refineries and he also bought out Andrew Carnegie’s steel company. As his wealth prospered there was a time in which he loaned the United States government money from a deep depression time. Although this was a generous act in his name, his workers where the ones who worked long hours and their wages were very little. Many of his workers died while working in his facilities. New technology meant work for people, not merely for those living in the United States, but for others around the world living in terrible situations, for example people from Russia, Europe and Italy. Many immigrants wanted to work to live better than they did in their hometowns. As companies in the United State emerged, workers founded themselves in hunger for jobs. Many workers where unskilled and most of them could not read, write, or understand the American language. However, they made their way into companies like the steel company along in JP Morgan’s and John D Rockefeller’

They wanted to end child labor, thus they would strike several times against sweatshops. Many women set up unions separate from men because men believed that they should not be working and they believed that women undercut wage levels. In 1869 a massive labor organization in the United States who was unskilled and skilled workers unionized to end child labor and convict labor. They fought for shorter hours and much higher wages. During their strikes they came in conflict with a lot of anarchist, which led to violence. However, with the strikes that workers set up they believe that they could fight for better work, wages, and hours, they also wanted to protect each other by