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The Historical Lesson and History Repeating Itself

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The Historical Lesson and History Repeating Itself

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The historical lesson of the Gilded Age and Progressivism is that all these different types of groups and people attempted to support immigrants, workers, women, and children; however the government always managed to step in and try to change things and take over;  sometimes with force. The government was corrupt and dishonest. It wasn’t easy for these groups to accomplish what they did, but they persevered. History is repeating itself because there are still those people who want to help and support those in need, but the government  still decides to take over and sometimes there are still corrupt individuals in the government body.

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Mother Jones: Mother Jones brought awareness to the public about child labor with her rallies and marches. “Mother Jones also held a dramatic march by mill children in 1903. They marched about 125 miles over the course of 20 days in order to see President Roosevelt. The President didn’t meet with them, but news coverage of the march increased awareness of the problem of child labor. In the years after the march, many states passed laws that outlawed child labor.”

Lewis Hine: Lewis Hine was a photographer who took pictures for public awareness for child labor. “The creation of the National Child Labor Committee and the passage of the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, which limited child labor, were passed as a result of the work of Hine and Jones.”

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The muckrakers were writers and journalists that wrote about the bad things that were going on during this time period. They tried to get information out that was normally not known so that more people could be aware of the situations that were going. It then would essentially prove that the government was corrupt. The document states: “During the Progressive era, muckrakers came to the forefront of American culture by exposing problems relatively unknown to the general public. Upton Sinclair, for example, wrote The Jungle to illuminate Americans about the corruption and terrible working conditions in the meatpacking industry in Chicago. These muckrakers sometimes had great success: The Jungle, for example, horrified so many people, including President Roosevelt, that laws were passed in an attempt to regulate the meatpacking industry.”

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To address problem through progressivism union workers attempted to go on strike to protect themselves from the hard working conditions. However the mill owners Carnegie and Frick brought in other non skilled workers to work. The article states this: “The strike began June 30. The Association, which had been so recently indifferent to the conditions of the day men [unskilled workers], now realized, since many of the latter could be put into the skilled positions, that the strike could not be won without their assistance. A call was thereupon issued for them to strike, and the day men, with everything to lose and almost nothing to gain, went out too, and remained faithful supporters to the end.”Strikebreakers were brought in from different parts of the country, and gradually production resumed. Often they weren’t told of their destination until they arrived; many times they were brought in sealed railroad cars after having signed up to go to other Carnegie plants.”

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During the Gilded age settlement houses were developed so that the transitions for the immigrants were made easier. “The major purpose of settlement houses was to help to assimilate and ease the transition of immigrants into the labor force by teaching them middle-class American values. In Chicago, for instance, Hull-House helped to educate immigrants by providing classes in history, art, and literature.Hull-House also provided social services to reduce the effects of poverty, including a daycare center, homeless shelter, public kitchen, and public baths.” In this document it also discusses that during a time when women were not aloud to be business leaders or involved in the government. The majority of the settlement houses were operated by women.

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Money Money Money! Frankly that’s all that business owners cared about during the Gilded age. I feel as though the business owners were Robber Barons. Even though people may disagree and say they did what they had to do make their company successful, the practices that the business owners did to their workers were unfair and unethical. Many companies would also cheat out each other by breaking the terms of the non-legal document and offering a lower price to the consumer. The document “Business and Ethics Outcomes” states this in paragraph one of the document. “Many railroads formed pool agreements or cartels to keep profits up. Unfortunately for these businesses, since these agreements were not legal contracts and thus were unenforceable, they were regularly broken. Here’s what often happened: Companies would sign pool agreements to each charge a certain price. As soon as they left the meeting, one of them would drop their price below the one specified in the agreement in order to steal customers from the other businesses.”

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Due to the demand of money children had to work. Despite the age of the children, working conditions were just as harsh as they would be for adults. Their working environment was unsafe and unsanitary but that didn’t stop the children from getting the job done. In the document “Child Labor-- 1900” The first paragraph states
“Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hand into the machinery to repair the snapped threads. They crawled under machinery to oil it.” This proves that the working environment was unsafe and unsanitary. In the same paragraph the document also states, “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 shir of the machines.” This proves that the treatments were very harsh and unfair. The children didn’t work because they wanted to, they worked because they had to. They had to help support their family with the little income that they were receiving so that their family could survive.