Andrew Carnegie

Carnegie was involved in reorganizing the whole pattern of industrial activity. Early in his career he changed jobs, moving from textiles to the telegraph office and then to the railroads (Livesay 1). Those shifts were symbolic as the brought him into contact with the dynamic forces that were altering communications and were creating large regional ones (McCloskey 140). Much of what he learned about communications and transportation he later adapted to the steel industry. Andrew Carnegie was …

…gave money back to those just like him, those working to better their life and standard of living. But he should be remembered as a businessman as well. He was a child of the old world, but he did much to bring on the new one. “He Found the iron industry a collection of small, scattered enterprises; he left it a giant, integrated business (Livesay 188).” What he learned on the railroad he brought to manufacturing.