Industrialization and Cooperate Consolidation: Attitudes

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             ?There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up? (quotes.com). This quote by Booker T. Washington can completely sum up his attitude towards the wealth created during the industrial revolution. Washington was born into slavery and fought his way to his education by working very long hours at his job as a janitor. He believed thatall forms of labor were honorable, and all forms of idleness disgraceful? and that theredemption of the Negro was being through industrial development?(Industrial Education for the Negro). He believed every man, no matter the race, must work very hard to progress up the social and economic ladder? and that the only way to do this was through muchself-improvement?(American Nation 451-452). Thus, Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Tuskegee Institute is a vocational school where one can betaught industries in connection with academic studies, were, in other words, to be taught to work? (I.E.F.N). One of the main goals of this school was to fit students into occupations that would be open to them in their own communities. Thus the quote that began this paragraph can sum up Washington's views on the wealth created in American during this period by showing how the poor and rich tried to attain affluence. The rich bypushing? others down (an example would be the Standard Oil Company of JD Rockefeller), and the poor would be trying to gain some level of affluence through any kind of self-improvements. Washington and Andrew Carnegie can be compared in their thinking of how wealth should be gained. They both strongly believed that every man must work his way up to prosperity through trade and/or education. Finally, Washington's major theme in his philanthropist life was to teach African Americans to helppull? themselves up in society through self-improvements. .
             ?And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department? (Carnegie).