Overview

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.

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Author:   Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr. ,  McFarland & Co
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780786464555

ISBN 10:   0786464550
Pages:   247
Publication Date:   13 August 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction  1. The Reunion  2. The Original Six  3. From Street Gang to Partnership  4. Braddock’s Field and Captain Bill  5. The “Class of 1879”  6. The Boys of Braddock and the King of Coke  7. Carnegie Steel Takes on Labor  8. The Gay Nineties  9. A Clash of Cultures 10. Mansions, Parties, and High Living 11. Corporate Misfits 12. In Charge of American Business 13. Bethlehem Takes the Torch of the Veterans 14. The Armor Trust and War Dividends 15. The Vision of an Industrial Democracy 16. Taming of the Lions 17. Twilight of the Titans 18. The Carnegie Veterans Association 19. The Carnegie Organizational Way 20. The Legacy of the Veterans 21. The Last Roll Call Appendix I: Key Carnegie Partners, Friends and Lieutenants Appendix II: Timeline Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr., Ph.D., is an international expert in management, manufacturing and globalization, and the author of several books on American industrial history, capitalism and notable business leaders. He lives in Maumee, Ohio.

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