1. Warm Up—What’s this cartoon about?

2. The Bad Part of Big Business
A new unskilled industrial laboring class faced low wages, chronic unemployment, and unsafe jobs
Examples: - didn’t mark high voltage wires
- locked fire doors
- toxic fumes emitted in factories
Cheaper to let workers be injured/die than to improve safety—so they often did.
Economic growth occurred, but had costs.

3. Progressive Era & Business
Teddy Roosevelt
President who helps break up trusts (monopolies)
“Square Deal” required regulating business
Ida Tarbell
A “muckraker” who takes on Rockefeller
Government investigates Standard Oil and break it up
Upton Sinclair
Wrote “The Jungle”
Meat Inspection Act passed in response