HIS 315L Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Child Labor Laws In The United States, Second Industrial Revolution, Gilded Age
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Major industries owned by a few monopolies. Labor organizations lobby at the state level about working hours, conditions, wages, etc. State regulation and judicial nullification, eg lochner v new york, 1905, liberty of. Bake shop law in ny 10 hours. No ventilation, breathing in bad air, bad for lungs. State legislation deprives worker freedom of contract to work under whatever conditions he wants, bizarre not workers that brought suit. Wa washer women when pregnant it"s dangerous for them to work 10 hours a day. One exception to liberty of contract, absolute laissez-faire, no regulation. Explained by social darwinism (see a. carnegie & w. g. Sumner) inequality is result of social evolution: survival of ittest . Survival of the fittest - william g. sumner (1905 cartoon) Rockefeller believed in this rose bush metaphor. He can make better decisions on spending money that may otherwise have gone to his workers. Drunk, don"t know how to manage money.
