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Lost Their Jobs Great Depression
1,229 wordsThe book, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie provided a way for people to motivate themselves and enter the work force after the Great Depression. As an enlightened individual and business man of the time, Mr. Carnegie created a book that, "touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as evidenced by its continued and uninterrupted sales into the eighties, almost half a century later, " (Carnegie 13). The peoples' ...
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Andrew Carnegie Captain Of Industry
1,179 wordsA captain of industry is defined as a business leader that benefits the nation in a positive way. This includes increasing the availability of goods, creating more and new jobs, and donating money to benefit the well being of the people. Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835. His father, Will, was a failing weaver. Leaving Scotland poor, his mother wanted to return in a carriage as a wealthy well-respected woman of importance. This drove Andrew to become successful by amassin...
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Rich Man Rich People
571 wordsCarnegie's philosophy in his Gospel of Wealth is that if the rich were to set an example to the poor then maybe they will fallow. He also says that the rich should live modestly and shun extravagance. He goes on to say that if a man gives charity for personal satisfaction is one of the most selfish actions of his life. Carnegie say that he wealthy need to give back to the community by giving them parks and works of art to do them lasting good. He finishes by saying that if you die a rich man and...
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Marx And Engels Capitalist Society
430 wordsAndrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth describes a capitalist society in which each man works for himself in the race for independent wealth. In this caste society, progress is defined as the continual accumulation of material wealth. An individual's organizational skills lead to his success; his success acquires wealth, which in turn provides higher social status than his working class counterparts. Carnegie defines progress as material gain. He claims that over the years, wealth has been accum...
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Comparing The Business Principles Of Carnegie And Lloyd
994 wordsSurvival of the fittest (502 Lloyd): it is the law of businesses from past to present. Within two very interesting excerpts from Andrew Carnegie's, Wealth and William Demarest Lloyds, Wealth Against Commonwealth, we as the reader get smacked in the face with two very different views. Although both writers have a common ground of money being the main issue, they differ on how it should or should not be administered from the rich to the poor. I believe both writers present us with good points, but...
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Andrew Carnegie Cut Costs
1,998 wordsAndrew Carnegie was born into a poor working class family living in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835. His father operated a small hand looming business located in the family home. The Carnegie's was literate, well read, and active in the politics of the day. It was a time of repression of the Scottish worker by the Government, the employers, and the culture. Rebellious in thought as well as actively participating in protests was part of the Carnegie family life style. He was exposed to...
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Yellen States 'the Carnegie ' Frick
1,006 words... f Amalgamated tyranny (they could not be trained for and moved into better jobs) as they were of Frick's [Carnegie's manager] hard labor policies. The unskilled lived wretchedly... where houses had no running water and no sanitation facilities. The 12 hour day (and Frick's speed-up) led to fatigue... the newcomers did not like the older immigrants, but they liked Frick less-and they went out on strike when the Amalgamated Association did (Baker 115). Frick had been moved into Carnegie's posi...
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Andrew Carnegie Working Class
999 words... Swetnam says, '... He never explained how a man working eighty-four hours a week at fourteen cents an hour could find 'spare hours' or material for such study' (96). 'The claim that he still thought as a working man was false' (Baker 89). Carnegie amply rewarded his young partners but only after he had squeezed out every bit of their ability to produce. The skilled laborers, of English, Irish, and Scottish descent, were valued and rewarded, but he had no respect for the easily replaced immig...
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Wealth Society Selfish
228 wordsIndividualism is greatly appreciated because it integrates the social status among the rich and the poor in equality. Throughout Carnegie's essay of wealth, hes mostly concerned about those who choose to deprive society of wealth by saving their riches. In order to prevent such greedy wealth, thus Carnegie writes of ideas that may help the public society through those who save till their death. One may support Carnegie's idea only if their thought was biased to the distribution of wealth in soci...
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