Nineteenth Century Was a Difficult Essay

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His first step was to take a job in the city's largest firm-Coley, Wadsworth and Company, which he would later own.

Initially buying the merchandise he sold from various production factories in and outside the U.S., Field shortly built factories where he made his own products and thus had to pay less money for the whole deal. Small businesses were practically brought to hopelessness because they could not keep up with the prices imposed by their larger counterparts. For some Field was a creative thinker whereas for others he was the end of their businesses. In spite of his social statue at the peak of his success, Field did not consider his employees to be any different from him and he did not hesitate to promote them when they deserved it. Nonetheless, he was recognized for paying employees lower wages than it was customary at the time. Even with that, most of them were happy with working conditions, considering that he took care that everyone would be awarded with jobs that would fit their expectations.


It was also during his era that worker strikes were brought down rapidly and with little damage, as he used the National Guard to calm down spirits. To a large degree, Marshall Field can be held responsible for the success experienced by Chicago in the nineteenth century and consequent to that time.

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