HIST 2057 : HIST 2057 Exam 2
Document Summary
Social reformers & the labor movement in the industrial era, 1870-1906. Factories and workers: more and more of these workers are immigrants from e, s, w europe. Living conditions of these immigrants were poor: how the other half lives (jacob riis, 1890) Five cents a spot luggage) no furnace/heater; no windows: realistic, not staged photograph they look caught off photo: example of muckraking journalism exposing guard. If it were staged, political element to showing this conditions; saying it needs to change: new work conditions in the factories. *the jungle (upton sinclair, 1906: classic muckraking story, fiction, immigrants working in the meat packing industry, explains what happens to cattle after they get off the train; slaughtering, packing, storage unsanitary, compare sinclair"s text to riis" photo. Political goals: rejected sausage from europe moldy, white . Eight-hour day didn"t become universal until 1927: 1869 two garment workers in philly.
