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 …

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