Carnegie's fortune

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Mar 13 14:51:22 PST 1999


I just got this request from someone teaching at a high school in Florida. If anyone can help out, I'll pass along the info.

Doug

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> i'd like to show them that Carnegie's wealth and
>"philanthropy" was based on exploiting workers. do you have handy or know of
>anywhere i could find a breakdown of Carnegie's labor costs, fixed capital
>costs, and especially profit rate? around the time of the strike 1892 would
>be ideal. is this in any business history book that you've read?



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