ProgressivismWHAT are PROGRESSIVE goals?• Democracy – government accountable to THE

PEOPLE• Regulation of businesses (corporations &

monopolies)• Social justice – workers, poor, women, minorities• Environmental protection

HOW?• Through Government (laws, regulations, programs,

etc.)• Fix government first, then government can fix

society

Muckrakers• Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives (1890)• Ida Tarbell – “The History of the Standard Oil Co.” (1902)• Lincoln Steffens – The Shame of the Cities (1904)

Ida TarbellIda Tarbell Lincoln SteffensLincoln Steffens

POLITICAL REFORM• Robert M. LaFollette• 17th Amendment (1913)• Direct primary• initiative• referendum• recall

Robert M. LaFolletteRobert M. LaFollette, , Wisconsin Governor 1900-06Wisconsin Governor 1900-06

Workplace & Labor reforms

– 8 hr. work day 8 hr. work day – improved safety & health improved safety & health

conditions in factoriesconditions in factories– workers compensation workers compensation

laws laws – minimum wage lawsminimum wage laws– unionization unionization – child labor lawschild labor laws

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1913

State Social Reform: Child LaborChild Laborers in Indiana Glass Works, Midnight, Indiana. 1908

Child Laborer, Newberry, S.C. 1908

“Breaker Boys” Pennsylvania, 1911

Shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Bay St. Louis, Miss., March 3, 1911