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Jo# (. )o*ke!e$$er- He established the Standard Oil Company, he had many trust
agreements. However the trusts were not legal mergers. Rockefeller used a trust to gain full control of the oil industry in America. He paid his workers e tremely low prices. He also sold oil at lowers prices than what it cost to produce it. !hen after he drove out all of his competitors he would make the prices really high.

A dre% +ar e&ie-He came to America very poor at the age of "#. He also supported
many charities. He was a philanthropist. $n fact %&S is a channel that is funded Andrew Carnegie. He was in charge of the Steel &usiness. He also used tactics like vertical integration and vertical integration. He also used the &essemer process to make his steel.

,am-e$ .om'ers-He led the Cigar 'arkets( $nternational )nion to *oin with other
craft unions in "++,. He also was %resident of the American -ederation of .abor /A-.0. He focused mostly on collective barging /negotiation0 between representatives of labor and management. He was able to reach written agreements with wages, hours and working conditions. 1ages for many workers rose thanks to Samuel 2ompers and the people of the American -ederation of .abor.

/-&e e 0. (e1s-3ugene wanted skilled and unskilled workers from the Railroad
$ndustry to come together and fight for better working conditions, wages and hours. He formed the AR) American Railway )nion.

.eor&e P-$$ma -He was an engineer4 he built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and
other railroad cars on the $llinois prairie. %ullman provided basic needs to all of his workers they lived in clean well constructed brick houses and apartment buildings with at least one window in every room which at this time was a lu ury for city dwellers.

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%roblems that workers faced in the "5th century were that they didn(t work healthy hours. !hey also did not have good wages. %eople at this time that were unskilled workers mainly didn(t have a fair wages which mainly affected the people(s lives. 'any rich people that owned the factories took advantage of the unskilled worker. 'any of these workers need to protest and fight for better pay ect.

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%roblems that workers face today is that many people are unemployed because the economy is not doing so well. %roblems today are different than what they were back then though. !oday we have laws that give people certain wages and to prevent companies from taking advantage of workers. %roblems today that probably still happened back then were that some people although there are laws against it are discrimination. Something very different from back then was the back then there were monopolies and now monopolies are illegal and the marketplace is pretty fair concerning that.