The Empire of Business: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Empire of Business, credited to Andrew Carnegie, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Empire of Business by Andrew Carnegie. Read in English by volunteer readers. This collection of essays by Scottish-American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie, gathered from various periodicals and first published in book form in 1902, provides insight into one of history’s richest and most notable entrepreneurs/philanthropists. Carnegie shares his outlook on the economic situation in America at the turn of the 20th century, the state of the US oil, coal, rail, and steel industries, the relationship between capital and labour, individualism vs. socialism, the public/private sector partnership, the upward climb of humanity into prosperity, the importance of land and population, trade and the best uses of tariffs, etc. He also discusses the personal rewards of hard work, integrity, thrift, how to accumulate wealth, cultivation of the lifelong reading habit, use of libraries, and other advice for achieving success. Included is one of his most famous little essays, "The Three Legged Stool". - Summary by Michele Fry

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Empire of Business
• Author credits: Andrew Carnegie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 8:40:48

Catalogue topics

• economics
• socialism
• carnegie
• labor
• business
• labour
• railroads
• individualism

Track guide

1. 01 - I. The Road To Business Success - A Talk To Young Men — 25:02
2. 02 - II. The Common Interest of Labour and Capital — 32:40
3. 03 - III. Thrift As A Duty — 7:30
4. 04 - IV. How To Win Fortune — 38:32
5. 05 - V. Wealth and Its Uses — 49:49
6. 06 - VI. Anglo-American Trade Relations — 22:47
7. 07 - VII. Business, Part 1 — 33:39
8. 08 - VIII. Business Part 2 — 27:57
9. 09 - IX. The Three-Legged Stool — 4:33
10. 10 - X. Railroads, Past and Present — 17:49
11. 11 - XI. Wealth, Part 1 — 35:45
12. 12 - XII. Wealth, Part 2 — 32:59
13. 13 - XIII. Labour — 44:17
14. 14 - XIV. Wages — 15:52
15. 15 - XV. Thrift — 4:59
16. 16 - XVI. The Land — 19:05
17. 17 - XVII. Individualism versus Socialism — 27:45
18. 18 - XVIII. Variety versus Uniformity — 16:20
19. 19 - XIX. Family Relations — 15:27
20. 20 - XX. The Long March Upward — 11:59
21. 21 - XXI. My Experience with Railway Rates and Rebates — 36:02

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