Job Description
Your task is to make sure that your business interests are kept intact. You
don't want to pay the laborers 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 the laborers stable work because if you keep work at a high
demand you can pay a lower wage. Use the listed websites to research the
benefits of being a business owner and the contributions that a wealthy
investor can make to society. Pay special attention to the power that you,
as a wealthy businessman, have when fighting laborers. 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
Andrew Carnegie and the Steel Business.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/m_run.html
Strike at Homestead Mill.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mh_horror.html
Detailed document about the Carnegie Steel Company and the Homestead Strike.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7672/homestead.html
The Horrors and the Promise of 1892 - What went wrong and how the corporation
won the strike.
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2441
Other Resources
www.google.com.
www.yahoo.com.
Class encyclopedia.
Class dictionary for any unknown words.