HY 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Upton Sinclair, Hookworm Infection, Abuse
29 Aug 2016
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Progressive reforms are trying to impose order out of chaos. Progressives believe in progress; believe that society was capable of improvement. Creating bureaucracy can be solved with the help of the government. Progressives were not quite as radical as the farmers the farmers were kind of scary. Many of the issues include: home life, and child labor, and childcare, women rights, women care, etc. A perspective of the progressive reformers is religion. Alcohol needs to be prohibited because it is evil. It was the duty of the christian to help. Progressives believed one did not succeed because they did not have access to education; people are working too many hours and their health is declining. People were not unsuccessful simply because of their genetics. Reforms that are based on social improvement. Writing about corporate abuses, child labor, etc. Upton sinclair: published the most famous novel of the terrible working conditions in the work place.
