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Triumphant capitalism
1995
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Title
Triumphant capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the industrial transformation of America
Creator
Warren, Kenneth
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Statement of Responsibility
Kenneth Warren.
Date
1995
Identifier
31735042716500
Description
Best remembered today for his fierce opposition to labor, especially during the Homestead Strike of 1892, Henry Clay Frick was also one of the most powerful and innovative industrialists of the nineteenth century. Kenneth Warren is the first historian to be given unrestricted access to the extensive Frick archives in Pittsburgh. Drawing on Frick's personal and business papers, as well as the records of the H. C. Frick Coal & Coke Company, the Carnegie Steel Company, and the U.S. Steel Corporation, Warren provides a wealth of new insights into Frick's relationship with such contemporaries as Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Charles Schwab, and Elbert Gary. He describes and analyzes the key decisions that formed labor and industrial policy in the iron and steel industry during a period of growth that remains unparalleled in American business history. Not only an industrial biography of a driving force in American industry and the organization of American business, Triumphant Capitalism makes 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.
Extent
xvii, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh
Type
text
Genre
bibliography
biography
Subject
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919
Industrialists--United States--Biography
Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History
Geographic Subjects
United States
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Language
eng
Collection
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
Historic Pittsburgh Book Collection
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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