Skrabec, who specializes in operations management, manufacturing, and globalization and writes books on American industrial history, American capitalism, and business leaders, details the
efforts of worker-centered industrialists from 1850 to 1910, who focused on the well-being of employees and the community by funding hospitals, libraries, and other community needs, such as
George Westinghouse, Andrew Carnegie, H.J. Heinz, Henry Clay Frick, Thomas Edison, John Rockefeller, James O’Hara, Issac Craig, Francis Cabot Lowell, John Crozer, Peter Cooper, Joseph Banigan,
John Wanamaker, Philip Armour, George Pullman, Oliver Sheldon, and Joseph Wharton, and their varying levels of philanthropy and paternalism, along with discussion of government policy, unions,
and the New Deal. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
