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You do a great job providing depth to the content we learned. In addition to good explanations, you also provide good evidence to support your claims.

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There are still things today that look good on the surface, but underneath there is misconduct and unethical acts. One article I read about that dealt with this topic was about a reporter who went undercover as a prison guard to find out how the inmates were treated. It turns out that the prison was often understaffed, the prisoners had little to eat, almost no access to education or exercise, and many other unjust things. The undercover reporter wrote an article about it with a goal to change the prison, so that makes him a modern day muckraker.

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The lessons that we learned from the gilded age are that even though things may look good on paper and the owner of the business is prosperous, it doesn't mean that he got there ethically, or that everyone else in his company is a well off as him. We also learned that even though by cutting corners you can lower costs and prices, it doesn't mean that you should. A lesson that we learned from prohibition during those times was that you can't keep people from doing what they want to do if there are enough people united, even if you pass a law.

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A very important individual who stood up for injustices was Mother Jones. She rallied for it to be illegal to hire child workers and miners' rights. Because of her hard work, "The creation of the National Child Labor Committee and the passage of the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, which limited child labor, were passed".

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Muckrakers were people whose goal was to learn about the bad and unjust things going on in the world, and expose them using media of some sort (Books and newspapers) One Muckraker I looked at was Nellie Bly. She went undercover in a mental institution to uncover how awful the patients were treated.

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To help the poverty stricken and the immigrant who aren't yet transfused into the American culture, reformers invented Settlement Housing. It provided people with lodging, food, and education about cooking, culture, and jobs so that they could get on their feet in America. This allowed for immigrants to understand how America works and to use that to their advantage to blend in and to get jobs to become prosperous.

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Mine workers began the push for unions. They would unite together so that they would have job security, have one big voice, and were able to try to make a deal with the boss so that they could have better pay or less hours. For most companies however, people like Carnegie fought back to defeat the union and, "Frick hired a private army of hundreds of armed mercenaries to force the strikers back to work."

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During the Gilded age, bars and pubs sprung up everywhere and husbands often went to them, spent all of their paycheck, and came home drunk and sometimes violent. The wife's job was to figure out how to put food on the table with the little, if andy money that the husband came home with. She also had to calm the husband down or figure out some other way to keep him from hurting herself and her children if he was drunk.

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The immigrant workers had it even harder than the average worker. Not only was he often paid less and worked harder, they were also discriminated against by their co workers. They also had no job security and they often couldn't communicate with others because they didn't speak english.

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There was very little safety precautions for workers. Because of this things like the triangle shirtwaist factory fire occurred and killed workers because of the locked fire escape, and things like improper protection at meat packing plants caused many physical wounds. "Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world; all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the acid"

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Businesses would often cut corners or do unethical things so they could save a few bucks. One thing that the meat packing companies did was putting other things into the good meat, and example of this is, "there was a trap in the pipe, where all the scraps of meat and odds and ends of refuse were caught, and every few days it was the old man's task to clean these out, and shovel their contents into one of the trucks with the rest of the meat!" The consumers were then given these, and they had to put up with the awful foods they were given.

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Because workers got paid little, their children had to chip in by working in factories and other unsafe places. They would work long hours for even less pay than the adults. The work was very unsafe and, "The tiny, slender bodies of the little children crawled in and about under dangerous machinery, oiling and cleaning. Often their hands were crushed. A finger was snapped off"