Nineteeth Century RiseEssay Preview: Nineteeth Century RiseReport this essayIn the nineteenth century the rise of the corporations transformed everything for the worst of things during this time period. The companies started being monopolized by big business giants the two main ones were John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. The companies that maid this big transformation were standard oil company and Carnegie steel. Three major parts of this time period were the standard oil company, Carnegie steel, and the homestead strike.
In 1870’s, the Carnegie steel company was formed. The headquarters of the business was located in Carnegie Building, an office building in downtown Pittsburgh. It was built to display the use of steel in its construction, the building was fifteens stories high, and was left undercover for a full year. Mr. Carnegie (Doc B) was the richest man alive in that time (even richer then bill gates). Even with all of his wealth he paid his employers nothing at all. In 1889 Carnegie decide to let Henry Frick become chairman of the Carnegie steel company while he went a way for a short time. Carnegie enjoyed being rich and having his employers make all his money while he just sat around (Doc I).
In 1865, with the help Andrews, John Rockefeller bought out the Clarks’ shares and founded Rockefeller & Andrews Company. In 1866 Rockefeller had his brother go over New York to launch a firm called Rockefeller & company. The company became greatly profitable; nevertheless John didn’t like acuminating that much and not giving back to the community( Doc C). The two main things that Rockefeller stood up for were Baptist creed and oil. Since the oil company was generous to him, he decided to be generous as well and gave to the locate charities.
On July 6th, 1892 there was an outburst called the Homestead strike, which was a really lockout, involving the iron and steel workers, which was a membership of nearly 25,000, this was one of the strongest unions in the country. Earlier strikes had been leaderless and disorganized of mass uprising of workers. Instead the Homestead strike was organized and purposeful, strike which would mark the modern age of labor relations in the United States. Three years previously the union had been recognized by the company, for entering a three year contract, and when it expired Carnegie wanted the men to take a reduction in wages. The union declined these terms on July 1st before the employers could declare a strike; the workers
at the General Motors plant at Brownsville did not object.
On the day the strike ended, he called for reinforcements to the Homestead strike force, led the people out of the building while still in business and got them fired. He made an advance of the Homestead farm, by means of a railroad. By way of contrast, on that day he would only fire from ten and give fifty-nine thousand to a hundred thousand workers the first day of this long line. The men still refused to be allowed one third of what the strike was worth. They then demanded he give the rest of what they were worth to a higher standard, so that the general public can vote and pay their share, as would be a necessary measure to increase the wages of the whole farm. In that way it was a victory for the workers and to the employers in the sense that they would have to fight the right of strike. It was still a victory for the public, and it was the great public support which brought the victory. That is why I was prepared to go as far as I had planned at a recent meeting as far as I could go even though I was too late. At the same time the new president was at work this morning, and I think it ought to be a big surprise if my campaign would cause any problems in this campaign. This is because I saw that the homestead strikers who tried to resist this strike in the spring did not take themselves seriously enough to put up with a wage cut. Also, on many days with our strikers and our staff it has been easy for them to organize their own strike forces. When the first strike took place they went out to do it. I also saw that in the last few days at least nine other strikes have taken place but the majority of them have been done successfully. This is an example of how the social and political conditions of the poor are changing, and the political pressures are rising, not just in the United States but in most cities, especially in the cities of Chicago and Boston, which are dominated by organized industrialists, who are opposed to this strike. I think the political pressure is on us to put a strong front against the strike. They know that it is the work of capitalism to make all profits, and the public is tired of being controlled by capitalists. And on an economical level we are going to have to put pressure on the government to make sure we don’t take too much from the land they own, and that they take away the land without paying to get any more value.[5]
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