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Professor Amy Bell
HIST 1302-81005
November 10, 2019
Writing assignment #2
Progressives were people from lower or middle class mostly were women. Those people wanted to improve work conditions, reduce child labor, increase women labor, women right to vote and many more. “Every day a thousand new members joined the union, the International Ladies Garment ………………………………..went on through the winter, against police, against scabs, against arrests and prison. In more than three hundred shops, workers won their demands” (Zin 304). This shows how progressives were striking and giving their best to bring changes in America. These people have suffered a lot to make changes in work environment. They wanted to improve their situations. Those stickers didn’t change anything for them. There were uncountable died in that era. The worst one was that women were set on fire. When there was fire at triangle shirtwaist company on 9th floor (discussion board 9). Those fire rescuers ladder wasn’t long enough to reach 9th floor and many exits were locked to keep workers in, so workers couldn’t escape. This fire happened in New York at the time of lunch. When people were out for lunch so many people were standing outside and watching women’s falling off the building trying to escape fire. There was no way to save them, so everyone stands there and watched those workers dying. Likewise, thousands of workers died and got injured in between 1900 to 1920.
Their worker was in miserable conditions at work such as they had to push the truck with hands and take the truck in the pickle room (Discussion board 9 prompt). Those wounds they have gotten by cutting so much beef. If they were to slip in those big pot of food, no one would take them out. Those diseased workers have been cooked and people were eating humans. It is discussing how those company actually cooked human or rats’ meats and feeding people. Those workers that had to use acid again and again their finger or hands were destroyed. They had to do these jobs until they had lost their hands. Those workers who were working in extreme temperature like steam room or chilling room. These workers were treated inhuman. They were given lower wages that everyone at home must work. Even children were working in these enlivenments to afford living. Children as young as 4 years old had worked there. Most of the time these children were given most dangerous work to do as they are so young (From class notes). For better work condition, civil rights and reduce child labor progressives did what they had to do.
During the gilded age, machinery and railroad changed everything in America. “. In 1860, 14 million tons of coal were mined; by 1884 it was 100 million tons” (Zin 237). Many things were done factor and easier throw machinery. Railroads were made which make transport easier form one town to another. Morgan bank were controlling people through their own money. These vast machineries resulted in unemployment. People were unable to find good jobs. There was still racism going on. There was economy growth but only for white. Whites were ruling and they were not letting African American to get a job. Those white have hold of everything and they were making big bucks. The framers could not afford seed, so they were taking loan.
The U.S. nation did become kinder, gentler and nation as progressive era have changed so much. Women and blacks were given right to vote, women suffering got reduced and child labor got banned. There are still so many things that needed to be achieved but that era has improved America a lot.
In progressive era, if worker were slipped in cooking pot, they would have been cooked in it. likewise, these days people were experimenting to convert human shit into meat. As a video we watched in class showed how they would convert waste parts of animals’ body in edible meat. We are still given crappy food without our knowledge (class notes). Likewise, the bread in made of same chemical as yoga mats are made to make bread softer. Moreover, children lunches in school are not healthy as in France or any other countries. Progressive era has improved somewhat of working conditions in America but still there is a lot to change. People living in other countries have more work benefits than what we get in America. If you were to get married in some countries, they would give their worker paid leave for honeymoon. Mothers-to-be get paternity leave which would be paid. They would be able o enjoy every even in their life. And through out the year they would get 8 weeks holidays. But these things aren’t impossible in America. In japan student gets free education, no matter if they are citizen or not. They give less taxes and get more benefits but we America’s gives a lot of taxes but get little benefit or not benefit out of it.
