37:575:202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National Child Labor Committee, Theodore Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair
23 Dec 2018
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Numerous reform issues: efficiency, conservation, power of monopolies, money control. Progressivists create the national child labor committee. Wanted to get laws/amendments to ban child labor. Mother jones: she organized a march of mill children to tr"s summer house. Cramped places where ppl would work all day for barely no money. 1st group to picket in front of the white house. Teddy roosevelt (tr), taft, wilson - "trust-busting limited progressive reforms. Sherman-anti trust act didn"t really do anything against monopolies. Talk softly and carry a big stick . Ex: hull house (founded by jane addams) Built to help immigrants adapt and to teach them english. Upton sinclair wrote the jungle to describe the packing houses. Horrible working conditions and bad stuff going into food. Tax people with higher incomes at a higher rate. Now americans can vote for their own senators. 1902 anthracite coal strike tr set up commission to arbitrate.
