Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of AmericaA detailed, carefully wrought business biography of Henry Clay Frick, one of the leading entrepreneurs in American heavy industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kenneth Warren has provided not only insight into the life of Henry Clay Frick, but a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the basic industries, the shaping of society, locality, and region - and thereby of laying the foundations for the value systems and landscapes of present-day America. |
Contents
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3 Carnegie Company Growth and the Homestead Crisis | 56 |
Production and Supply | 113 |
Process Plant | 178 |
6 The Reshaping of Carnegie Steel | 207 |
7 Years of Transition | 269 |
8 The Shaping of the US Steel Corporation | 295 |
9 From Industrial Manager to Finance Capitalist | 330 |
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