Homestead Strike

Andrew Carnegie was a philanthropist who changed history in America. The famous Andrew Carnegie was born in November, 1835, to a poor and struggling family in Dunfermline, Scotland. In 1848, his family decided to immigrate to the United States for the necessity of a better life and immediately started working at a local textile mill setting where he earned $1.20 a week. He was soon recognized by his talent of decoding dot-dot dash-dash messages by ear and was hired by Pennsylvania Railroad where

it’s your millionaires and your trust” (Bell 66). Specifically, the May Day Strike where the working class rose against the owners in order to receive eight hour work days on May 1, 1886, where numerous workers left business all over the nation. Unfortunately, on May 3. 1886 violence broke out against the strikers and the police resulting in two strikers killed and many wounded. Violence also occurred in the Homestead strike resulting in “ten men were dead, seven of them steelworkers, and sixty wounded”

Battle of Homestead. This began when the tugboat known as Little Bill brought nearly 300 Pinkerton Detectives hired by Carnegie and his colleagues to the union workers of the Homestead Carnegie steel mill. This resulted in the workers storming the docks and attacking the incoming Pinkertons as they approached the mill2. In the case of union involvement at Homestead Steel Works of the Carnegie Steel Company, potentially more harm may have been done than good during the 1892 battle of Homestead. Homestead

Carnegie County: An Analysis of the History and Legacy of Homestead At the culmination of the nineteenth century in the United States, industrialization was transforming cities at a lightning pace. With a flurry of immigration and expansion, urban populations were multiplying by the decade, at a rate twice the speed of the total American population. In 1860, the city of Chicago had a mere 100,000 residents but by 1890 had exploded to harbor over one million people. Immigration from southern and eastern

unions and strikes, and the lack of rights for immigrant workers. During the Gilded age many American workers

1800’s Strikes Pullman Strike: The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894. The American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, and the government of the United States, President Grover Cleveland. The issue began in Pullman, Chicago, on May 11 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike.org about “4,000 factory employees of the Pullman Company began a strike in response to lowered wages.” According to https://www.britannica.com

Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Intro: - England had accomplished a manufacturing nation in 100 years – America did it in half of the time - Not as sudden as observers believe – the national had been building a manufacturing economy for a while and industry was well established before the civil war - Many factors contributed to the drastic transformation – the important new technologies from America and Europe - Industrial growth helped the new forms of corporate organization develop and increase

Hero, the definition of Hero, has been by pondered by many individuals. Hero is not word of mouth but a word of action characterized by spontaneous acts of benevolence to society, as well as leaving a mass footprint of succession that can be used as aide for the future. A famous entrepreneur, named Andrew Carnegie is a true definition of a hero, existing in an era of massive industrialization, where skyscrapers held their heights, and steam engines ignited. In fact Andrew Carnegie had indeed

and the tense relationship between the ruthless coke magnate and the world’s richest man. The dramatic centerpiece of the dual biography is the bloody clash which exists between imported Pinkerton (detectives) and striking steel workers at the homestead of Carnegie’s, in July 1892. During the battle, fourteen people died, and much more were injured. The story of Andrew and Henry is one of the most fascinating stories about relationships; the man who endowed many libraries, and the man who created

In the end, a battle took place between armed strikers and 300 Pinkerton policemen, prompting the death of seven workers and three Pinkerton agents (638). The Amalgamated Association was then dissolved. What the Homestead strike proved as that “neither a powerful union nor public opinion could influence the conduct of the largest corporations” (638), which would remain the case for the Triangle Shirtwaist trial that would take place only twenty years later. Even in the