The Change Of Relationship Between Andrew Carnegie And...

Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America by Les Standiford discusses about the change of relationship between Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick through the events that occurred during the Gilded Age. Standiford is a professor in English and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami. He received awards, including, the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Standiford lists the beginnings and the ends of Carnegie and Frick’s lives in a chronological order, which all leads up to the Homestead Steel Strike. Throughout the novel, Standiford provides evidences on how the strike caused a catastrophe between the management and the labor in American history, which signaled the end of Carnegie - Frick alliance. In 1848, Carnegie’s family moved to America from Scotland. During his time as a â€Å"delivery boy for a telegraph company,† Carnegie’s â€Å"skill and self-confidence attracted† people, â€Å"including Thomas Scott,† the â€Å"assistant superintendent for the western division of the Pennsylvania Railroad† (Standiford, 2005, p. 30). In 1853, Scott offered Carnegie a â€Å"job for thirty-five dollars a month,† which became the platform of â€Å"the first step along his path to greatness† (Standiford, 2005, p. 30). Similarly, Frick â€Å"emigrated from Switzerland in the early 1700s,† and worked diligently (Standiford, 2005, p. 53). Frick’sShow MoreRelatedAndrew Carnegie: Ruthless Conqueror or Great Philanthropist? 1980 Words   |  8 PagesAndrew Carnegie can be looked at as a double edged sword. One edge of the blade would show Carnegie as an ideal example of a poor immigrant fighting his way up to become an incre dibly successful business man who would one day give nearly all his fortune away to help society improve itself. The reverse edge of the blade would show Carnegie as a ruthless business man who would slash his workers pay, drive other businesses under and used corruption to become leader of the capitalist world. These viewpointsRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pagesreproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on the appropriate page within text. Copyright  © 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying