History 109
February 29, 2016
How did the labor and women's movements expand the meanings of American freedom?
Progressive Reformers wanted better working conditions. They had in mind to humanize industrial capitalism (Lecture/Text 738)
Workers had to follow the specific working instructions given by their supervisors which led to many skilled workers seeing this as a loss of freedom. They wanted Industrial Freedom. (Text 738)
Progressive Reformers believed that by giving workers the right to make economic decisions can help bring industrial freedom. (Text 739)
This later established workers to negotiate/make decisions wages and working conditions with their employers (Text 739)
Eugene V. Debs brought together all people to the socialist