When I think of business gone wrong, I can’t help to think about the near massacre of the Homestead Mill Strike in 1892. This was around the era of when America was revolutionizing industries and establishing the countries economy. Some may say that these were ruthless and cutthroat times of business. However, one man came out of it extremely successful and made a name for himself, it was Andrew Carnegie, a true “entrepreneur.”
Andrew Carnegie was born and raised in the country of Scotland. He later made his way to America, started many companies, and became very wealthy. One company that made him extremely wealthy, but turned his reputation for the worst was the United States Steel Corporation. Carnegie had built this company from the bottom up. He was not only financially invested, but emotionally. He wanted to be the largest steel industry in the world. Carnegie couldn’t reach his goal …show more content…
Within a couple of months Frick had managed to cause extreme turmoil. The employees didn’t agree with the way things were being handled so they caused a secret union and went on strike. “The union fought not just for better wages, but for a say in America's new industrial order. Despite Carnegie's public pro-labor stance, he refused to share control of his company. He and his partner, Henry Clay Frick, had brought unions to heel at their other mills, but Homestead remained untamed ” Frick got word of this and paid high dollar for armed men to control this behavior. “When 300 Pinkerton Detectives came ashore at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead mill on July 6, 1892, they had no idea of the extreme violence with which locked-out steelworkers would greet them. A hail of stones, then bullets, ripped the air... what had begun as a simple disagreement over wages between the nations largest steelmaker and its largest craft union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, had taken a decidedly savage
Andrew Carnegie was born and raised in the country of Scotland. He later made his way to America, started many companies, and became very wealthy. One company that made him extremely wealthy, but turned his reputation for the worst was the United States Steel Corporation. Carnegie had built this company from the bottom up. He was not only financially invested, but emotionally. He wanted to be the largest steel industry in the world. Carnegie couldn’t reach his goal …show more content…
Within a couple of months Frick had managed to cause extreme turmoil. The employees didn’t agree with the way things were being handled so they caused a secret union and went on strike. “The union fought not just for better wages, but for a say in America's new industrial order. Despite Carnegie's public pro-labor stance, he refused to share control of his company. He and his partner, Henry Clay Frick, had brought unions to heel at their other mills, but Homestead remained untamed ” Frick got word of this and paid high dollar for armed men to control this behavior. “When 300 Pinkerton Detectives came ashore at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead mill on July 6, 1892, they had no idea of the extreme violence with which locked-out steelworkers would greet them. A hail of stones, then bullets, ripped the air... what had begun as a simple disagreement over wages between the nations largest steelmaker and its largest craft union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, had taken a decidedly savage