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The workers were miserable. The mill was being mechanized, and men who had been skilled workers - and paid decent wages - were being forced to take unskilled jobs at the mill at lower wages.

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Q: Why did workers go on strike in the Carnegie steel mills outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania?
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Why did workers go on strike in the Carnegie steel mills outside of Pittsburgh?

The workers were miserable. The mill was being mechanized, and men who had been skilled workers - and paid decent wages - were being forced to take unskilled jobs at the mill at lower wages.


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What company was affected by the homestead strike?

This was a battle to unionize steel workers of Carnegie Steel Company in Pennsylvania. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) was an American labor union formed in 1876. It was a craft union representing skilled iron and steel workers. Carnegie was publicly in favor of the Unions but only publicly. He and his manager Henry Frick were bound to break the union. The Homestead was a setback to the union. The Pennsylvania State Militia was brought in to stop the uprising.


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How did Andrew Carnegie and his industry treat workers?

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How much did Andrew Carnegie pay his workers?

He underpayed them.


Where can you find cartoons from Pittsburgh Press?

I, too am looking for the daily Pittsburgh Press cartoon called "The Day Shift" which depicted construction workers . I remember it running in the fifties and sixties. It was in one of the Pittsburgh papers, and I'm pretty sure it was the Press.I'm about to call the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh (Oakland). If any one knows how to access Press cartoons they will.


Did andrew carnegie support the idea of socialism?

Absolutely not. Carnegie was a prototypical capitalist "robber baron" who ruthlessly exploited his workers.


How did carnegie's related industries treat workers?

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What did Andrew Carnegie do to keep his factory running the homestead strike?

he decreased workers' hours. ... he raised workers' wages.


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he decreased workers' hours. ... he raised workers' wages.


How did Andrew Carnegie treat his workers and employees?

By hitting them and telling them that he will kill their family