HISTORY 100AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Upton Sinclair, Child Labour, Federal Meat Inspection Act
28 Feb 2018
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Recap: the big pi(cid:272)ture, the freed(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s a(cid:448)i(cid:374)gs ba(cid:374)k, ethnic savings institutions, mutual insurance. Shift from awe of big businesses to critique of big businesses. In the gilded ager, the government helps business (1880-1890: beginning of 1900, government reins in big business, theodore roosevelts joins the labor side when united mine workers strike, standard oil, tobacco, and northern securities are broken up. Sherman antitrust act (1890: a totally unregulated market will go from free market to no market when corporations become so big that they stamp out everyone else. In order to ensure a free market, they ban monopolies and restrain giant businesses: depending on wording, could have been a blow to unions. United states v e. c knight company (american sugar refining company that controls. 98% of sugar refining in the united states: supreme court says sugar refining is not trade or commerce, its manufacturing. So it does not violate the act as the act says nothing about manufacturing.
