Vanderbilt Reflection
1.) Vanderbilt was the focus of the first episode with bits of Rockefeller and Carnegie. My favorite among the three was Vanderbilt because he was the first person to do business in such a cut throat and original way. Leaving the rest that came after him to learn from him and develop new techniques from what he had already shown them. Now, Vanderbilt came from the docks of New York City and he was extremely competitive for it. He earned the name Commodore from his time in the shipping business. That was his beginning with growing one boat into a fleet. Then, when the Civil War was getting ready to begin he sold his shipping empire, which was the largest in the world at that time. However, Vanderbilt was far from being done. He turned his eye
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Especially when I read the testimonies, it had a feel of 9/11 to it. The dropping of the bodies, those who could not escape the flames of the top stories, to those who were buried without being identified. I know they are two different things, but the feel and the memory of watching it on the news in eight grade as it was happening lends to understanding the bystanders. Anyway, the standards that the industrial revolution had for sweat shops was horrible. Everything from the working hours, to the conditions they had to work in. The standards have gotten better for the most part depending on the job field you have entered in today. Yet, there is a whole different set of issues and not just the cleanness and safety policies that are big issues now. However, factories, companies, etc. all find ways to go around the rules put in place to help the people working in them. For example, my mom works in the post office as a mail carrier. Now, during Christmas time she had to pull almost seventy hours, working six to seven days a week. Her boss tried to not pay for the overtime that was clearly there by cutting the hours on the time sheets. Plus, the union, from my understanding, for the post office does not really help them because there really is no one to go above the head postal office manager in the building or that is the jest of what I have caught from my mother’s
Especially when I read the testimonies, it had a feel of 9/11 to it. The dropping of the bodies, those who could not escape the flames of the top stories, to those who were buried without being identified. I know they are two different things, but the feel and the memory of watching it on the news in eight grade as it was happening lends to understanding the bystanders. Anyway, the standards that the industrial revolution had for sweat shops was horrible. Everything from the working hours, to the conditions they had to work in. The standards have gotten better for the most part depending on the job field you have entered in today. Yet, there is a whole different set of issues and not just the cleanness and safety policies that are big issues now. However, factories, companies, etc. all find ways to go around the rules put in place to help the people working in them. For example, my mom works in the post office as a mail carrier. Now, during Christmas time she had to pull almost seventy hours, working six to seven days a week. Her boss tried to not pay for the overtime that was clearly there by cutting the hours on the time sheets. Plus, the union, from my understanding, for the post office does not really help them because there really is no one to go above the head postal office manager in the building or that is the jest of what I have caught from my mother’s