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Food industry

Food industry. Problem: No inspections of factories or quality of product Businesses “fatten” bottom line by decreasing quality Example- meat industry. Proposed solutions. Meat Inspection Act~ Guaranteed that the government inspects all meat

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Food industry

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  1. Food industry • Problem: • No inspections of factories or quality of product • Businesses “fatten” bottom line by decreasing quality • Example- meat industry

  2. Proposed solutions • Meat Inspection Act~ • Guaranteed that the government inspects all meat • Factories closed or fined if not following regulations • Pure Food and Drug Act~ • Made sure what was advertised was in the product, and what was in the product was advertised. • Both are still effective in society today

  3. Workers problems • Problems: • Hours • Wages • Injuries • Conditions Example: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

  4. Proposed solutions • Adamson act~ • Set the working hours • Example: Railroad workers will work an average of 8 hours a day (6 days a week) • Minimum wage laws~ • Each state sets the minimum wage • Based on each states’ economy • Workman’s compensation insurance~ • Receive money for each week out of work if injured on the job • Could not be fired if hurt on job

  5. Muller vs. Oregon (1908) • Louis Brandies • Persuaded the Supreme court to pass laws protecting women’s weaker bodies from certain work conditions • Hailed a success • Closed women out of “male” jobs Workers gain control in work place

  6. Political problems and solutions • Problem: • Need to regain power lost by the people • Political Machines & Corruption • Spoils system • Voters have little to no power • (senators part of “millionaires club”) • Political Bosses and individuals ran the cities as their own Kingdoms

  7. Proposed solutions • 17th amendment • State Level • The initiative enables citizens to draft laws and constitutional amendments and place them on the ballot for a popular vote. • The referendum provides for a popular vote on laws passed by the legislature. • The recall allows citizens to remove elected officials from office. • Australian (“Secret”) Ballot

  8. Social problems • Problem: • Tenement and slums • The poor • Conditions in the cities

  9. Solutions: • Housing regulations~ • Each large city passes own regulations • Settlement houses~ • Set up to help poor and immigrant assimilation • Provide temporary relief • Ex. Hull House • Salvation army~ • Provided food, clothing, shelter to the needy

  10. alcohol • Solutions: • 18th amendment~ • Temperance movement~ • Women’s Christian Temperance Movement • Leader Carrie Nation • Nation divided into “wet” & “dry” • “dry” controlled congress in 1919

  11. Women • Women defining a new social role • More active in unions and organizations • Wyoming 1st state to give vote to women (1869) • Took 72 years for all states to allow women to vote • 1st demand at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Susan B. Anthony • Carrie Chapman Catt • Alice Paul

  12. Woman’s Suffrage • Political reformers want the woman’s vote • This would change the tone of elections • Many were afraid woman would be a second vote for their husband

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