Although industrialists of The Gilded Age brought about a new societal sophistication, those of the lower class were not blessed by these of the social graces. The men of The Gilded Age the steelmaker Andrew Carnegie, the banker J.P. Morgan, the oilman John D. Rockefeller, and the railroad magnates Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt, contributed to the low income and poverty lives of their workers. Often labeled at robber barons, these industrialists took away the rights of their workers and helped make higher class children have an unfair advantage, especially in the sense of education, over the lower class youth. These men, distinctly different in their investments, all had one goal in mind. To earn a profit, no matter the cost.
These men trying to create and build these monopolies, corner markets, and increase profits the men never cared too much about who they hurt or what the effect of what their actions were. All they ever cared about is the money and the goods coming their way. For example, in the article “Captain of Industry or Robber Barons?” it states “workers were treated badly by the capitalists and their management organizations. Workers were often
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The children of the poor couldn’t go to school because they had to go work in the factories alongside the parents to make ends meet. In the article “Captain of Industry or Robber Barons?” states “Child labor made up over 5 percent of national labor force.” The poor children are pretty much set up for failure because they will grow up with no education and be stuck working in a factory all their lives to help make ends meet for their families. Just because these men want to receive as much profit out of the production as they possibly can. So they rob the workers by paying them little to nothing. In the article “Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?” states “working families were forced to rely on two, three, and sometimes more, incomes to make ends