HIST 2057 : Test 2 Notes - Gutfreund - Spring 2014 - Hist 2057
Document Summary
Social reformers & the labor movement in the industrial era, 1870-1906: more and more of these workers are immigrants from e, s, w europe, living conditions of these immigrants were poor. Factories and workers: how the other half lives (jacob riis, 1890) Five cents a spot : room is crowded with personal items (pots/pans, luggage) no, realistic, not staged photograph they look caught off guard muckraking journalism exposing conditions; saying it needs to. If it were staged, political element to showing this photo: example of furnace/heater; no windows change: new work conditions in the factories. Immigrants working in the meat packing industry: classic muckraking story, fiction, 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 . Workers organize into unions: after the civil war, workers worked 10 hours shifts no protection on sudden loss of jobs.
