PROGRESSIVE REFORM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. 1. ECONOMIC JUSTICE-- LABOR AND WAGE ISSUES as well as regulation of business.

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PROGRESSIVE REFORM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

1. ECONOMIC JUSTICE-- LABOR AND WAGE ISSUES as well as regulation of business

Settlement Houses Jane Addams- Chicago Lillian Wald-New York Vida Scudder- Boston

PROGRESSIVES EXPOSE CHILD LABOR NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE HIRES LEWIS HINE

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

CHILD LABOR REFORM DOCUMENT EXISTENCE OF WIDESPREAD EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN CHILDREN HURT IN FACTORIES AND COAL MINES BAN CHILD LABOR

Congress refuses to stop child labor in 1906

U.S. PROTECTIVE LABOR LAWS STATE LAWS LIMITING THE HOURS THAT WOMEN COULD WORK COURTS OVERRULE MOST LEGISLATION “LIBERTY OF CONTRACT”

WOMEN’S TRADE UNION LEAGUE

Women Workers from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union

AMERICAN PROGRESSIVES DEFEND THE RIGHT OF WORKERS TO UNIONIZE TR AND ANTHRACITE COAL STRIKE 1902

PROGRESSIVES DISCOVER MEAT PACKING PLANTS ARE UNHEALTHY

PROGRESSIVES EXPOSE DIRT IN FOOD MANUFACTURING UPTON SINCLAIR, THE JUNGLE GENERAL FEDERAL OF WOMEN’S CLUBS SHOCK CONGRESS WITH IMPURE FOOD DISPLAY TR LOBBIES FOR PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT 1906

PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATIONS PATENT MEDICINE POISONOUS COCAINE IN MEDICINE IODINE IN SALT

2. Reviving Democracy-- CIVIC AND STATE REFORM GOVERNOR LAFOLLETTE SCIENTIFIC RR RATES Reform mayors Good government groups fight bosses and machines

REVIVE PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY

HOW INCLUSIVE SHOULD DEMOCRACY BE?

SUFFRAGE FINDS NEW ALLIES AND TACTICS

SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT STARTED LONG BEFORE PROGRESSIVE ERA Anthony Amendment-- federal vs. state campaigns? Women’s political networks worked on a variety of issues SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT STALLED UNTIL PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT AT ITS HEIGHT

3. CONSERVATION

4. Moral Reform White slavery Temperance Banning of movies and books

The Varied REFORM GOALS for America’s Progressives 5. THE CREATION OF A WELFARE STATE TO PROTECT THE MOST VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY

PROGRESSIVE PARTY HOUR DAY 2. 6 DAY WEEK 3. ABOLITION OF TENEMENT MANUFACTURE 4. IMPROVED HOUSING 5. BAN CHILD LABOR 6. CONSERVATION 7. 2 BATTLESHIP PER YEAR DEFENSE 8. FEDERAL SYSTEM OF OLD-AGE, ACCIDENT, HEALTH, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (WELFARE STATE) 9. SUFFRAGE

In Germany--Bismarck’s reforms were designed to thwart socialism and “to reconcile the working classes to the authority of the state.” OLD AGE PENSIONS Workers’ compensation Some disability benefits

British Welfare State Ideas Poor laws, mutual and friendly societies provide aid, People’s Budget-old age pensions, unemployment benefits and aid to sick Great War--Labour Party National Minimums--some public ownership, minimum standard of living for all 1940s-more systematic start of NHS, welfare, and old age pension

PROGRESSIVE ERA EMPLOYERS, LEGISLATURES, AND COURTS BLOCKED: 1. SHORTER HOURS 2. MINIMUM WAGES 3. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SOCIAL SECURITY OR OLD AGE PENSIONS

AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS BEFORE Cleaner city government 2. Parks, playgrounds, recreation expanded 3. Labor unions gained a foothold 4. Prohibition and suffrage in WWI 5. Trust-busting-- business regulated 6. Pure Food and Drug Act 7.PRIMARIES, DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS, INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM 8. Aid to Minimum wage and pension movements and maternalism--Shepard- Towner Act 9. Under Wilson--Clayton Anti-trust Act, Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission

FRANCES PERKINS FROM TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE COMMISSION FACTORY REGULATION NEW YORK POLITICS in TWENTIES FIRST WOMAN CABINET MEMBER--SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

VARIETIES OF AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE REFORM