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Write a one paragraph summary of the reading from yesterday ([|The Corporate Revolution]") in the discussion tab above. Use your fishbone to assist you.
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Today we are going to spin from what we read yesterday on the transformation of businesses into looking at two specific innovators in the Industrial Age - Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. We will begin with reading a part of "Big Business and Organized Labor" (Chapter 18, Section 2 of your textbook, 614-616).
 * What We Did In Class**

I'll distribute the note-taking handout "[|Notes on Carnegie and Rockefeller.pages]". Notice what you are asked to record in the columns about each of the two men...

Then, further research the two and record what your opinions are of them by using the two resources below:
 * "Andrew Carnegie" via pbs.org
 * "Rich as Rockefeller" via pbs.org

Write a one-paragraph statement on whether you think these men were "captains of industry" or "robber barons" (definitions below). > // __Captains of Industry__: Usually held to imply that the person so described was intelligent, innovative, hardworking and mainly a decent person whose works and methods were mostly honorable and caused far greater good than harm. // > // __Robber Barons__: Usually held to imply that the person so described was also intelligent, hardworking and innovative but used methods and caused changes which overall were far more destructive and self-serving than beneficial, for instance getting wealthy and powerful at the expense of others. //
 * Homework**

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