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Progressive Ideals and Reforming the Workplace

Progressive Ideals and Reforming the Workplace. Chapters’ 8.2/8.3. Who are Progressives?. People who wanted to fight crime, disease, and poverty that were spreading in cities due to rapid growth Mainly Middle Class people Needed Federal Government to step in. Muckrakers.

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Progressive Ideals and Reforming the Workplace

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  1. Progressive Ideals and Reforming the Workplace Chapters’ 8.2/8.3

  2. Who are Progressives? • People who wanted to fight crime, disease, and poverty that were spreading in cities due to rapid growth • Mainly Middle Class people • Needed Federal Government to step in

  3. Muckrakers • Journalists who wrote stories about corrupt business and politics • “Raked up” and exposed muck and filth of society • Often wrote about business monopolies • Expose Political Machines

  4. Progressivism Works! • Started at state and local levels (start small!) • Led to Direct Primaries: people get to vote for a political party candidate rather than party leaders choosing • This led to 17th Amendment: PEOPLE get to vote for U.S. Senators, instead of party big wigs • Recalls: people can petition to remove candidate from office (sound familiar?) • Also can influence laws; not just candidates

  5. Progressive Impact on City Governments • Run like a business rather than big politics

  6. Progressive Impact on State Governments • Robert La Follette(FROM WI!!)(Future Governor and U.S. senator; also ran for President) • Wisconsin Idea: favored direct primaries and fighting Political Machines by forming relationships with University of Wisconsin and state government officials (keep big business out) • This really drove the Progressive Movement

  7. Progressive Impact on Urban Planning • Fought tenement conditions by making them more clean, better lit, and fresh air

  8. Progressive Impact on Education • Kindergartens (Wisconsin) • School playgrounds • John Dewey: More emphasis on critical thinking skills than memorization

  9. Child Labor • CHEAP work • Poor and dangerous conditions in these factories and mills • Progressives tried passing laws on federal level, but were shot down (Up to States)

  10. Safety in the Workplace • Unions helped fight for 8 hour work days and minimum wage laws • Also fought for safer working environments • “America: Story of US” example of fire in shirt-making mill which killed 146 workers; mainly women (Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in NY) • Fought for workers’ compensation if injured at work and not able to attend job until better; got paid

  11. Some Against This Movement • Thought government should not interfere in the private business world; want free enterprise (Sound familiar?)

  12. Unions Grow • Protecting workers’ rights; mainly through higher pay • Socialism grew: government/workers have major say in economic development

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