In 1898, Florence Kelley formed the National Consumers’ League and urged stores to pay female clerks a better wage. The League would work for protective legislation regulating the hours and conditions for children and women. Back then women were shut out of male-dominated unions such as the American Federation of Labor or AFL for short, mostly because they thought that the employed women were taking the jobs of men who were the main source of income for their families. Now, politics was a huge issue during the Gilded Age, the reason why was because there so much mayhem; though there were some pros when it came to politics during this era. Throughout the decades, when it came to politics for both parties, the Republicans and Democrats believed that the national government should not have any right to regulate corporations or protect the social welfare of workers. Neither party therefore courted the labor union vote. Many members of both parties embraced the doctrine of laissez-faire, which is the belief that unregulated competition represented the best path to progress. Which means that the federal government should promote economic development but not regulate
In 1898, Florence Kelley formed the National Consumers’ League and urged stores to pay female clerks a better wage. The League would work for protective legislation regulating the hours and conditions for children and women. Back then women were shut out of male-dominated unions such as the American Federation of Labor or AFL for short, mostly because they thought that the employed women were taking the jobs of men who were the main source of income for their families. Now, politics was a huge issue during the Gilded Age, the reason why was because there so much mayhem; though there were some pros when it came to politics during this era. Throughout the decades, when it came to politics for both parties, the Republicans and Democrats believed that the national government should not have any right to regulate corporations or protect the social welfare of workers. Neither party therefore courted the labor union vote. Many members of both parties embraced the doctrine of laissez-faire, which is the belief that unregulated competition represented the best path to progress. Which means that the federal government should promote economic development but not regulate