Job Description
Your task is to make sure that your business interests are kept intact. You
don't want to pay your employees a higher wage because that means you and
your investors will make a smaller profit. It is also not cost effective for
you to give employees stable work because if you keep work at a high demand
you can pay a lower wage since laborers will take what they can get. Use the
listed websites to research the benefits of being a business owner and the
contributions that a wealthy investor can make to society. As you read
through the information, keep in mind all the jobs created and lives that
changed as a result of all these new industries.
Internet Links
George Pullman and the Luxury Rail Car Era.
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/pullman.html
Andrew Carnegie: Steel and the Railroads.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/m_run.html
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 - Read this to see if anything has changed
and if you can adopt any of the strategies to win your strike.
http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/uen_1877.html
The Effects of a Strike - Pay close attention to the costs for a union to
have a strike.
http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/sk881.Html
Other Resources