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What can we LEARN from this? So we don't have to Repeat the Past

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What can we LEARN from this? So we don't have to Repeat the Past

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What we can learn from this and I feel what we have come to slightly understand is simple, be kind to others. Be somewhat remotely fair to the people struggling to make ends- meat. We can do this by providing them with health care, insurance, medical benefits, and retirement benefits. And another thing is to not let the wrong people rise to power, fight back early. And something this drastic might not happen again. But if we don't display these small amounts of kindness and respect for eachother then you can fully expect history to repeat itself.

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A muckraker could be compared to an under-cover investigative police man. They are extreme journalists who go to whole new lengths to unveil the injustices of numerous American industries.

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I have already explained to you the luxuries that a "skilled worker receives on the job but what about the people actually doing the work??? They worked 10 hour shifts, 6 days a week, for wages barely enough to survive. Kids as young as 8 years old worked hours that kept them out of school. Men and women worked until their bodies couldn't anymore. Only to be released from employment with no retirement benefits, medical attention, and women who became pregnant were often fired. Sympathy for being hurt while on the job was zero.

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The Gilded Age indefinitely affected most workers in a completely negative fashion. The workers that were affected in this way were only the "unskilled" workers. The unskilled workers were basically the ones doing the actual labor. Lets say you are in a paper airplane factory, the people actually making the airplanes are the "unskilled" ones and the people walking around (usually men) giving orders, are the skilled. But as I said above it effected them negatively, they weren't getting paid enough for hard labor, and when I say that I mean around cents a day, yes cents. As you might expect this caused some to strike. The biggest one was in Homestead Pennsylvania.
Home stead Strike says: "The 800 skilled workers were in the minority at the mill, which employed a total of 3,800 men. They were members of a craft union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, which had helped them gain wages ranging from $35 to $70 a week and an eight hour day. It had also helped them gain an important role in making decisions about their working conditions."

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Believe it or not the Gilded Age turned out to make consuming a much easier task. This was partly thanks to Jay Gould. Jay Gould was a leading American railroad developer and speculator. He has been referred to as one of the ruthless robber barons of the Gilded Age. He basically revolutionized the railroad business, illegally that is. Business Ethics and Outcomes says: "Gould made approximately $3 million by driving down the price of U.S. Express stock to $16, buying thousands of shares, then deciding to renew the contract (which brought the price back up to $60 per share)"

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Working conditions were horrible in the coal mines. One muckraker reported this-- "Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair the snapped threads. They crawled under machinery to oil it. They replaced spindles all day long [and all] night through. Tiny babies of six years old with faces of sixty did an eight hour shift for ten cents a day. If they fell asleep, cold water was dashed in their faces, and the voice of the manager yelled above the ceaseless racket and whir of the machines."

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How did "The Gilded Age" affect children?

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How did "The Gilded Age" affect children?

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Child Labor was a major problem during the Gilded Age, especially those working in the coal mines. It was a terrible thing having those children working under those conditions and putting their lives at risk everyday

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The Gilded Age was a term coined by Mark Twain in his book A Tale of Today. It was to represent the time period of 1865- 1896 (an era of rapid economic growth). Wages were higher than ever for everyone but especially for skilled workers (welders, carpenters etc.)  However, the Gilded Age was also an era of poverty and inequality as millions of immigrants, many from impoverished European nations flooded the US.