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W.K. Kellogg as a Captain of Industry A Captain of Industry is a business leader who succeeds in making a personal profit while contributing positively back to the country and that’s exactly who W.K. Kellogg’s was. As a fourteen year old drop out W.K Kellogg's produced a roaring cereal company named Kelloggs. This simple food made millions for Kellogg who then took that profit and put it back out into the country. He did this through his ideology of organized labor and The Kellogg Foundation to

American economy. Business owners were responsible for, “the American economy [to grow and grow]. By 1914, the small nation once seen as a playground for European empires had now surpassed them all” (The Gilded Age). These owners are captains of industry because of their ability to boost the economy and further progress America in the right direction. America started out as a small nation, but due to mainly business, America was able to surpass even larger nations. Other business figures, such as

Andrew Carnegie is known for being a captain of industry, or a business person who is especially powerful and successful. Through his work on the development of the prosperous American steel industry, he soon became one of the richest entrepreneurs of his time. Carnegie started work in a cotton factory as bobbin boy after leaving Scotland and arriving in America, earning merely $1.20 per week. Eventually, after working diligently for his entire life, Carnegie was able to build his steel company into

“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”(Publilius Syrus) Andrew Carnegie did not seem very worried about his reputation among his workers! Andrew Carnegie’s managers and Andrew Carnegie himself had horrible connections and relations with his workers. His workers’ conditions were ineffective and unreasonable. Andrew Carnegie should be imprinted in human story as a robber baron due to the ghastly conditions his workers wrought under and the heinous worker-employer relations with his workers

steel profits. The article quoted, “Carnegie drive for efficiency, cost. and control over their own labor.” (Steel Business) The quote resembles that Carnegie only cares about what he makes instead of the safety of his workers. He just wants to be rich and famous. Also, another quote by the same article quotes, “Protection gear consisted of only 2 layers of wool long johns.” (Steel Business.) Andrew doesn’t care at all about the safety of his workers because he is a robber baron. If he was a captain

impacted the country very positively in its time of need. One of these Captains is named Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie emigrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania at the young age of thirteen. After his father failing multiple times to start a handloom business, Carnegie, like many commoners, worked as a labourer earning only $1.20 a week. Surprisingly, a game of chequers between his uncle and manager of a local telegraph office is what led Carnegie on the road to wealth and fortune. Andrew was known as

From accomplishments to all the profits, industrialists made many sacrifices to be who they are and being successful by becoming an robber baron. The term robber baron is an American capitalist at the turn of the 19th century who enriched himself upon the sweat of others or exploited natural resources Captain of industry led people to make and be able to accomplish without anyones help. Industrialists should be able to say what they are and what they accomplished but they use any advantages they

He transformed the economy of the U.S through his business skills. It was because of his wise choices and investments that helped him rise to the top. It also made him a captain of industry because he owned every step of the process of producing steel, from creating it, to transporting it, to selling it. He didn’t keep his wealth all to himself. After selling his business, he spent the end of his life helping others and donating his money to good causes. Making

During the Progressive Era there was a lot of horrible things happening. There were people that didn’t try to make it easier to live at this time. Those people didn’t care who they hurt or took over to get what they wanted to get more money. Andrew Carnegie is a robber baron and that means he will do whatever is necessary to be on top. He was born November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline United Kingdom. when he was 16 he had a friend in scotland and they wrote letter to each other. Carnegie wrote to

than enough to support a typical six-member family. Even though Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland he created so much business for the U.S. From the map of all of Carnegie properties is says “Carnegie's Oliver Iron Mining Oil Co. controlled nearly all of the Mesabi iron ore fields, the largest in the world.” Carnegie’s iron ore field only benefited the U.S. with more business .Carnegie also