“A man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handful of the dried dung of rats.” (The Jungle) According to Upton Sinclair this is what was happening to people's food in the late 1800’s. During the Progressive Era there were issues such as no consumer protection, bad working conditions, and people not having equal rights. They tried to change them for the good. The three abuses are consumer protection, working conditions, and people not having equal right.
There was need for a positive change in the U.S during the 1900’s. There were political corruption, child labor, horrible working conditions, minimum wage and women’s rights. Child labor was when kids were working for low pay child labor reached new extremes during the Industrial Revolution. Children …show more content…
The factories were worse than the living conditions. There were many cases of people losing their lives or getting extremely hurt in the workplace but worse of all young children were working. Could you imagine a child as young as six working in a dangerous factory? Well that's exactly what they saw in america during this time. This was called child labor the name itself is pretty self explanatory we know that labor is just another word for work so child labor meant children working. For factory owners child labor was the best. You see they knew children could work for little wage. (child labor) In Fact in nineteenth hundreds eighteen percent of all american workers were under the age of 16. “The educational reformers of the mid-nineteenth century convinced many among the native-born population that primary school education was a necessity for both personal fulfillment and the advancement of the nation. This led several states to establish a minimum wage for labor and minimal requirements for school attendance”. After that the U.S came up with child labor laws this set a minimum age limit for children to work in each state.
There was need for a positive change in the U.S during the 1900’s. There were political corruption, child labor, horrible working conditions, minimum wage and women’s rights. Child labor was when kids were working for low pay child labor reached new extremes during the Industrial Revolution. Children …show more content…
The factories were worse than the living conditions. There were many cases of people losing their lives or getting extremely hurt in the workplace but worse of all young children were working. Could you imagine a child as young as six working in a dangerous factory? Well that's exactly what they saw in america during this time. This was called child labor the name itself is pretty self explanatory we know that labor is just another word for work so child labor meant children working. For factory owners child labor was the best. You see they knew children could work for little wage. (child labor) In Fact in nineteenth hundreds eighteen percent of all american workers were under the age of 16. “The educational reformers of the mid-nineteenth century convinced many among the native-born population that primary school education was a necessity for both personal fulfillment and the advancement of the nation. This led several states to establish a minimum wage for labor and minimal requirements for school attendance”. After that the U.S came up with child labor laws this set a minimum age limit for children to work in each state.