Ida Tarbell, perhaps the most well-known female muckraker, wrote a series of articles on the dangers of John D. Other writers, like Lincoln Steffens, explored corruption in city politics, or, like Ray Standard Baker, researched unsafe working conditions and low pay in the coal mines. The work of the muckrakers not only revealed serious problems in American society, but also agitated, often successfully, for change.
Progressive activists took up these causes and lobbied for legislation to address some of the ills troubling industrial America. Muckrakers drew public attention to some of the most glaring inequities and scandals that grew out of the social ills of the Gilded Age and the hands-off approach of the federal government since the end of Reconstruction. These writers by and large addressed a white, middle-class and elite, native-born audience, even though Progressive movements and organizations involved a diverse range of Americans.
What united these Progressives beyond their different backgrounds and causes was a set of uniting principles, however. Progressives also agreed that democracy had to be balanced with an emphasis on efficiency, a reliance on science and technology, and deference to the expertise of professionals.
They repudiated party politics but looked to government to regulate the modern market economy. And they saw themselves as the agents of social justice and reform, as well as the stewards and guides of workers and the urban poor.
The expressions of these Progressive principles developed at the grassroots level. It was not until Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly became president in that the federal government would engage in Progressive reforms. Before then, Progressivism was work done by the people, for the people.
What knit Progressives together was the feeling that the country was moving at a dangerous pace in a dangerous direction and required the efforts of everyday Americans to help put it back on track.
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Based on a course taught by the author, this book is a collection of essays on US muckrakers in the 19th and 20th centuries, It also includes interviews with contemporary muckrakers, such as Barbara Ehrenreich who writes on labor and women and Laurie Garrett who is known for her reporting on health.
This is a selective look at the highlights of some muckraking writing. Patent medicine muckraking: Influences on American pharmacy, social reform, and foreign actors. Pharmacy in History The authors discuss the impact of muckrakers, such as Edward Bok whose coverage of patent medicines led to the Food and Drug Act.
Not only did the journalism on the subject of ineffective and dangerous medicine lead to new laws in the United States, the muckraking tactics were also used by journalists in the United Kingdom and in Europe. Wilson, Harold S.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Wilson describes the major stories written by the muckrakers as well as their career trajectories, political beliefs, and their relationships to each other and to the magazines for which they worked. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content on this page.
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