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68R – Focus: What were the horrors of the workplace in the 1800s?

68R – Focus: What were the horrors of the workplace in the 1800s?. Exposes. A document that brings to light a hidden wrong or injustice. To expose the truth

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68R – Focus: What were the horrors of the workplace in the 1800s?

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  1. 68R – Focus: What were the horrors of the workplace in the 1800s?

  2. Exposes • A document that brings to light a hidden wrong or injustice. • To expose the truth • In the 1800s and 1900s there were a group of journalists that were writing exposes to educate the world about the injustices of the workplace • They were known as MUCKRACKERS • A Muckracker is a person who digs up dirt on a person or group of people to write an expose

  3. Muckrackers of the 19th Century • Jacob Riis (expose on the impoverished) • How The Other Half Lives • Upton Sinclair (wrote a book on the unsafe/unhealthy practices in a meat factory) • The Jungle

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