On the early working morning of July 6, 1892, silence overtook the Homestead Steel Works Mill in Pittsburg, as workers and steelworkers waited to defend their steel mill and the their work. The Homestead Strike was a small civil war between workers and the businessmen who ran them… The American Industrial Revolution and the post-Civil War economic boom and bust produced this violent protest and strike against a steel factory in property of the lucky Andrew Carnegie. Like many wealthy businessmen, Carnegie sought ways to maximize profit, so he needed to change working class wages and/or dismantle unions that protected workers... The violent and bellicose scene at Homestead involved two significant groups in the industrial order: the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers' Association and the Pinkertons (paid "secret service" mercenaries hired by Carnegie Steel). At this point in the dawn of American industry, the Amalgamated Association began to represent the entire working and proletarian class of America, and the Pinkertons and the "scabs" (non-union). ...