In a brilliant essay at The Baffler, Daisy Pitkin, a union organizer and writer from Pittsburgh, weaves the story of Andrew Carnegie, the Johnstown Flood, and the recent unionization of workers at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. It is worth...
Andrew Carnegie
What is More Important: Quality Consumer Goods or Social Equality?
The obvious answer is quality consumer goods. How could we live without them? At least this is how Pennsylvania steel magnate Andrew Carnegie would have answered the question posed in the title of my post. Yesterday in my Pennsylvania History class...