Changing Relationship Between Gov’t & Business

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Changing Relationship Between Gov’t & Business Unfair business practices, working conditions Laissez-faire? Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) 1887 Monitored railroad shipping rates Couldn’t do much BUT, 1st gov’t agency to monitor business practices Sherman Antitrust Act 1890, outlawed trusts that operated “in restraint of trade or commerce among several states”

Organized Labor Movement Hardships of Factory Work 1880s, 1890s, employed people who would work for little $

Hot, dark, dirty, dangerous, sweatshops 12 hours a day 6 days a week

Workers’ Difficulties Low wages = both parents need to work = kids? Late 1800s, about 1 in 5 kids aged 10-16 worked instead of going to school

Company Towns Many laborers, especially miners lived in isolated communities Company store, high interest, arrested if left work with debt “wage slavery”

Growth of Labor Unions Industrialization & free enterprise lowered prices But workers were frustrated …The Growth of Labor Unions

Immigration 1865 - 1914 Poltical Cartoon from 1889

“Old” Immigrants Until 1870 Protestant Northern & Western Europe Germans & Irish, 1840's-1850's Farms

“New” Immigrants Beginning in 1870's Unskilled Catholic & Jewish Cities

“Old” / “New” Immigrants

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