Triumphant capitalism : Henry Clay Frick and the industrial transformation of America

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Kenneth, Author.

Series:

University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections

University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrialists--United States--Biography.

Industrialists.

Steel industry and trade--History--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.

Steel industry and trade.

Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919.

Frick, Henry Clay.

United States.

Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.

Genre:

Biographies.

History

Biographies

Biography

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Pittsburgh Press 1995

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List Of Illustrations

List Of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Prologue: Foundations For A Business Life

The Industrial Setting

Family Origins

Beginnings in Coke

2. Complexities In Coke And Steel

Iron And Coke Since The Civil War

The Carnegies' Search For Improved Fuel

Association At Arm's Length

Problems In Coke

3. Carnegie Company Growth and The Homestead Crisis

Plants And Personalities

Early Labor Disputes

The Homestead Plant

The Strike

The Aftermath

4. Aspects Of Management: Production and Supply

Competition And Collusion In Rails

Armor Plate

Organizing Mineral Supply

5. Aspects Of Management: Process Plant

Modernization and Integration

Questions Of Location

6. The Reshaping of Carnegie Steel

Change in the High Command

The Urge To Reorganize

An Option To Buy

The Crisis Of Fall 1899

7. Years Of Transition

The Carnegie Company Without Frick

New Interests in Steel and Shipbuilding

8. The Shaping of The U.S. Steel Corporation

Formation and Early Operations

New Districts, New Plant, New Problems

Culmination and Decline in the Coke Region

9. From Industrial Manager to Finance Capitalist

New Business Interests

World War I

Back to Normalcy

10. Images and Perceptions: Assessing Frick's Life

Appendixes

Appendix A: Statistical Tables

Appendix B: Biographical Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-421) and index.

ISBN:

9780822972211

0822972212

OCLC:

1037750606