Reform during the Progressive Era: Food

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Reform during theProgressive EraFood Drug
Manufacturing

• Yuliya Babak, Louise Duvall,
• Olivia Massey, Philippa Nicklin
• Jason Shapiro

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Labor Conditions

• Sweatshops
• Exploitation
• Strikes

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Product Quality

• No regulations until 1906
• False labels
• Meat Inspection Act
• Pure Food Drug Act

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Health Work Environment

• Low wages
• Child labor
• Long hours
• Unsafe
• Repetitive tasks

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Haymarket Affair (May 4, 1886)

• Protesting police brutality
• Bomb thrown
• Radicals arrested
• Public opinion decreased

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)

• Locked doors
• Factory owners acquitted
• NY set up task force
• ILGWU

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Upton Sinclair

• Wrote The Jungle (1906)
• Horrors of meat packing industry
• Prompted reform

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Proposal For Reform

• Regulations on working environments
• Minimum wage
• Child labor laws
• Address problems of labor unions
• Product quality investigations

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Bibliography

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• http//nylatinojournal.com/home/images/stories/hay
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• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image1903sweatshopch
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• http//www.superchefblog.com/images/jungle_coverdo
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