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I believe a big lesson we could take away from the prohibition period is to have self worth. If government officials had a little more self worth and didn't allow themselves to be influenced by large businesses. If workers held themselves to higher standards and didn't allow themselves to be pushed around. If parents worked hard enough and didn't allow their own children to go slave away in dangerous factories. If immigrants simply held themselves to the standard of a human being maybe they would've had jobs that weren't so cruel and animal. I believe the corruption during this period was caused by human beings simply lowering their standards.

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Individuals such as Mother Jones brought immense awareness to these atrocities during the Gilded Age. Mother Jones created a 125 mile march about child labor and brought awareness to it. Lewis Hine photographed children in factories working under harsh rule and in very dangerous situations. Here's one of his photos

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Muckrakers were people who exposed the evil things happening in factories and food plants. John Spargo for example exposed child labor like Lewis Hine. Perhaps the more popular book "How the Other Half Lives" Written by muckraker Jacob Riis. This book exposed the poverty in cities and factory workers.

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Reformers were in  the form of settlement houses during the Gilded Age. Settlement houses were big homes that provided education for immigrants who wanted to become american. They provided language, cooking, food, entertainment and an easy transition into america. These houses having entertainment such as big dances they often brought in an "undesirable" crowd.

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Unions like the one at Homestead opera house were the only fighting chance workers had against factory owners. These unions call for equal pay and shorter days. Upon forming unions strikebreakers were brought in. In this case strikebreakers and armed mercenaries were brought in by Carnigie.

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Women played a role in key role prohibition. The women of America suffered from drunken husbands wasting money at saloons that should be used supporting the family. Women often times were beaten by drunk husbands whose minds were clouded by alcohol. Women were undoubtedly the leaders of the dry movement across America.

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Immigrants often suffered in the workplace. Their jobs consisted of hard jobs with unfair wages. For example the Mine War. The Mine War was a union formed by miners, who were mostly immigrants, to try and raise pay. This sparked anger in the large mine owners and they brought in hired guns, strike breakers, and even kicked people out of their company owned homes. The mine owners started a monopoly like system where they owned the miners homes and even owned the shops where they bought their groceries.

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Workers in general suffered just as much as immigrants, children and women. Workers went on suffering long days with very low pay long enough to the point of unions and strikes. Two types of workers existed. The skilled and unskilled. The skilled often were paid more with less work and held themselves above unskilled workers. The skilled workers were allowed in the union. The unskilled were not. When working conditions became too brutal and skilled workers wanted a strike, they needed the unskilled to join them. Luckily the unskilled agreed to join the strike if they were allowed in the union. Of course this strike didn't lead to much besides more strikebreakers.

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Consumers were the winners and loser of the gilded age. Sometimes when there was fierce competition between businesses the prices would drop via the competition. On the other the consumer could suffer severely. Railroad businesses for example, "Many railroads formed pool agreements or cartels to keep profits up." This would drive the price up for railroads up tremendously.

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Child Labor was a widespread issue during the Gilded Age. Children had to work for these factories to help support their families!  More often than not the children worked in dangerous conditions because they were so small. "This factory was run also by child labor. The machinery needed constant cleaning. 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. "