Henry Clay Frick And The Golden Age Of Coal And Coke 1870 1920

Author : Cassandra Vivian
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476681559

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Henry Clay Frick and the Golden Age of Coal and Coke, 1870-1920 by Cassandra Vivian Pdf

Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke industry began to flourish and supply other fledgling industries with the fuel they needed to succeed. The thrust of this growth came from Henry Clay Frick, who opened his first coal mines in the Morgan Valley of Fayette County in 1871. There, he helped lead the industry, making it the major developmental force in industrial America. This book traces the birth and growth of the early coal and coke industry from 1870 to 1920, primarily in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties. Beyond Frick's importance to the industry, other major topics covered in this history include the lives and struggles of the miners and immigrants who worked in the industry, the growth of unions and the many strikes in the region, and the attempts to clean the surrounding waterways from the horrific pollution that resulted from industrial development. Perhaps the most significant fact is that this book uses primary sources contemporary with the golden age of the coal and coke industry. That effort offers an alternative view and helps repair the common portrayal of Frick as corrupt by showing his work as that of an industrial genius.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020770983

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Carnegie Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015013030468

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Trains by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Harvey
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1587981270

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Henry Clay Frick by George Harvey Pdf

Written by a close friend, this is the story of the industrialist, art collector, and benefactor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : WISC:89062843529

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The Daily News Almanac and Political Register for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Edward Plumbe,James Langland,Claude Othello Pike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : UOM:39015063752144

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The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for ... by George Edward Plumbe,James Langland,Claude Othello Pike Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : UIUC:30112044125778

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Chicago Daily News Almanac by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kenneth Warren
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780822972211

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Triumphant Capitalism by Kenneth Warren Pdf

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.

Author : Amory B. Lovins
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1844071944

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Winning the Oil Endgame by Amory B. Lovins Pdf

Enough about the oil problem. Here?s the solution.Over a few decades, starting now, a vibrant US economy (then others) can completely phase out oil. This will save a net $70 billion a year, revitalize key industries and rural America, create a million jobs, and enhance security.Here?s the roadmap ? independent, peer-reviewed, co-sponsored by the Pentagon ? for the transition beyond oil, led by business and profit.

Author : Per-Olof Grönberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004385207

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The Peregrine Profession by Per-Olof Grönberg Pdf

In The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. These graduates constituted an extraordinary mobile group, that often returned home and became important for Nordic industrialisation.

Author : Martha Frick Symington Sanger
Publisher : Abbeville Publishing Group
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSC:32106014922196

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Henry Clay Frick by Martha Frick Symington Sanger Pdf

For the first time, a great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick, world famous art collector and steel tycoon, has assembled an intimate, pictorial biography that reveals the triumphs and tragedies of Frick's life. 370 illustrations, 225 in color.

Author : Les Standiford
Publisher : Crown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400047680

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Meet You in Hell by Les Standiford Pdf

Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price. “Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today “The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Meet You in Hell captures the majesty and danger of steel manufacturing, the rough-and-tumble of the business world, and the fraught relationship between “the world’s richest man” and the ruthless coke magnate to whom he entrusted his companies. The result is an extraordinary work of popular history. Praise for Meet You in Hell “To the list of the signal relationships of American history . . . we can add one more: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick . . . The tale is deftly set out by Les Standiford.”—Wall Street Journal “Standiford tells the story with the skills of a novelist . . . a colloquial style that is mindful of William Manchester’s great The Glory and the Dream.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “A muscular, enthralling read that takes you back to a time when two titans of industry clashed in a battle of wills and egos that had seismic ramifications not only for themselves but for anyone living in the United States, then and now.”—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River

Author : Janette Thomas Greenwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : United States
ISBN : 0195166388

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The Gilded Age by Janette Thomas Greenwood Pdf

Uses a wide variety of documents to show how Americans dealt with an age of extremes from 1887 to 1900, including rapid industrialization, unemployment, unprecedented wealth, and immigration.

Author : Herbert George Gutman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0394722515

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Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America by Herbert George Gutman Pdf

These essays in American working-class and social history, in the words of their author "all share a common theme -- a concern to explain the beliefs and behavior of American working people in the several decades that saw this nation transformed into a powerful industrial capitalist society." The subjects range widely-from the Lowell, Massachusetts, mill girls to the patterns of violence in scattered railroad strikes prior to 1877 to the neglected role black coal miners played in the formative years of the UMW to the difficulties encountered by capitalists in imposing decisions upon workers. In his discussions of each of these, Gutman offers penetrating new interpretations of the signficance of class and race, religion and ideology in the American labor movement.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464814952

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World Development Report 2020 by World Bank Pdf

Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has stalled. Meanwhile, serious threats have emerged to the model of trade-led growth. New technologies could draw production closer to the consumer and reduce the demand for labor. And trade conflicts among large countries could lead to a retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains examines whether there is still a path to development through GVCs and trade. It concludes that technological change is, at this stage, more a boon than a curse. GVCs can continue to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty provided that developing countries implement deeper reforms to promote GVC participation; industrial countries pursue open, predictable policies; and all countries revive multilateral cooperation.