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A Reformer Deplores the Poverty Caused by Industrial Progress
Henry George was a reformer and utopian whose 1886 New York City mayoral campaign as the Workingman's Party candidate had the makings of a popular uprising. Although George finished second, behind Democrat Abram S. Hewitt and ahead of Republican [...]
Tags: Social Movements
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
A Reformer Describes Child Labor in the Coal Mines
John Spargo's The Bitter Cry of Children, published in 1906, was among the most influential and widely read accounts of child labor written during the Progressive era. Spargo described work at the coal breaker, the area outside the mine where coal [...]
Tags: Child Labor, Progressivism
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)