The cycle of economic, social structure, and political system all were the common thread of oppression during the gilded age. There was low income wages, hard economics times, and forcing the children to work at a very young age. The poverty stricken the middle class and the wealthy. The political parties were all from the wealthy and the middle class. The “robber barons”, two major depressions and the labor unions were added to the gilded age.
The three “robber barons” Andrew Carnegie, John S. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan were known as the three most powerful men in the time of the Gilded age. These three men didn’t develop their power and wealth calmly and by good means. Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Steel company, so he developed
