The Carnegie Steel Comapany

By the turn of the new century, new and improved technology and the constant pursuing of new ways to gain money by men like Andrew Carnegie who increased the on going tension between the workers and managements. Men worked very long 12 hour shifts for very little money. Low salaries and long days weren’t the only thing these workers had to worry about, they had to worry about, “white-hot ingots, fast-moving overhead cranes, and exploding furnaces. Clearly the most powerful union of this time was the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AAISW) who began organizing on August 4, of 1876. They fought hard to get better working conditions for workers, job securities, and social conditions. In 1887 the AAISW decided to join with the American Federations of Labor and the cause of this idea was the membership of the AAISW and the AFL grew to 20,975 members making it the largest unions in America. The union and the work force worked with the management not against it. And...