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Benevolent Barons
- American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910
Engelsk Paperback
Benevolent Barons
- American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910
Engelsk Paperback

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American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community and poured millions into schools, job training and adult education. Often criticized as welfare capitalism, this system was unique in the world.

Lesser known capitalists like Peter Cooper and George Westinghouse led the movement in the mid- to late 1800s. Westinghouse, in particular, focused on good wages and benefits. Robber barons like George Pullman and Andrew Carnegie would later succeed in corrupting the higher benefits of worker-centered capitalism. This is the story of those accomplished Americans who sought to balance the accumulation of wealth with communal responsibility.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780786494941
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786494948
Udg. Dato:
1 jul 2015
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
1 jul 2015
Forfatter(e):
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