Robber baron is a term first applied as social criticism by 19th century muckrakers and others to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century...

baron (feudalism), term for unscrupulous medieval landowners Robber baron (industrialist), term for unscrupulous 19th-century American businessmen This...

A robber baron or robber knight (German: Raubritter) was an unscrupulous feudal landowner who, protected by his fief's legal status, imposed high taxes...

individuals have been known by different terms throughout history, such as robber barons, captains of industry, moguls, oligarchs, plutocrats, or tai-pans. The...

Putin's presidency Privatization in Russia Reputation laundering Robber baron (industrialist) Russian asset tracker Russian mafia Tycoon Ukrainian oligarchs...

History of post-Soviet Russia#Rise of the oligarchs Oligarchy Robber baron (industrialist) Corruption in Ukraine Wilson, Andrew (2005). Virtual Politics:...

Occupational injury Occupational noise Pricing Raw material Robber baron (industrialist) Science park Seven Wonders of the Industrial World Standard...

Carlyle's vision. Some 19th-century industrialists who were called "captains of industry" overlap with those called "robber barons". These include people such...

(1823–1881), American businessman, railway executive, and early "robber baron" industrialist Thomas B. Scott (1829–1886), Wisconsin politician Thomas M. Scott...

Édouard-Jean, 3rd Baron Empain (7 October 1937 – 21 June 2018) was a French-Belgian industrialist, best known by the general public for his kidnapping...

A. Kent. From 1896 to 1906, it was the home of barbed-wire industrialist and robber baron John Warne Gates, better known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates for...

States Senate as a body under the control of "captain of industry" robber barons representing trusts in various industries, who are depicted as obese...

preservation National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, Ohio Robber baron (industrialist) "National Register Information System – Ebenezer Andrews House (#74001467)"...

first Republican Governor of California. Stanford is widely considered a robber baron. Leland Stanford was born in 1824 in what was then Watervliet, New York...

the Gould business dynasty. He is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices...

Even before academic studies began, Americans were enthralled by the Robber baron debate. As the United States industrialized very rapidly after the Civil...

George Lauder Jr. (November 11, 1837 – August 24, 1924) was a Scottish industrialist. A trained mechanical engineer, Lauder was responsible for many of the...

hired by the robber barons of the Westerfield Club to track and capture Bly and his gang. Brisco is assigned a liaison to the industrialists, a lawyer named...

Merchants Telegraph Company, competing against financier Jay Gould, the robber baron of the Western Union. They operated over 400 offices, and controlled...

criticism for his conduct in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and as a "robber baron." Scott helped negotiate the Republican Party's Compromise of 1877 with...

[kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel...

2021-05-01. Retrieved 2021-05-01. "Old Master criminals | James Fenton on robber barons in the art market". The Guardian. September 8, 2007. p. 26. Retrieved...

San Francisco: W.W. Elliott & Co. Spiekermann, Uwe. "Claus Spreckels: Robber Baron and Sugar King." In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business...

grandest country clubs ever built" and "a symbol of the gilded age" where robber barons and the established rich of old New York mixed. In 1892, Amzi L. Barber...

Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a...

Resurgent Years 1956. Latham, Earl, ed. (1949). John D. Rockefeller: Robber Baron or Industrial Statesman?. Manchester, William. A Rockefeller Family Portrait:...

acts as the on-set stand-in for Miss Minutes. Richard Dixon as Robber Baron: An industrialist who purchases a faulty invention from Victor Timely at the 1893...

Company and Victor-American Fuel Company but has been referred to as a robber baron. He also created Redstone, Colorado. Osgood was born in Brooklyn, but...

New Orleans coffee deal." Matthew Josephson, who popularized the term "robber baron", asserted that Morgan certainly did know of the scheme, because he had...

"I am not afraid to die." — Philip Danforth Armour, American industrialist, founder of Armour and Company (6 January 1901) "Bertie." — Victoria, queen...