Steam trains and train tracks were being built to expand access across the United States. We also saw the production and use of steam boats which were used to transport people and products across the county which had vastly changed from the horse and buggy days (Annenberg 2013). The two most significant social consequences of this time were living conditions and labor laws. The living conditions were poor. Most people who worked in the factories lived in the factories which had little living space, lack of proper ventilation and lack of proper hygiene (Wikipedia).
Other individuals advocated that the government overthrow the current capitalist system because of its inherit evils. The government legislation passed laws that stopped the abuse of workers and the interference of production. Some of the things that the legislation saw as problematic were unions, child labor, and long working hours. However, there were also people not in the government that tried to solve the problems of the Industrial Revolution as well. People like Adam Smith, Ralph Chaplin, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Marx attempted to address certain problems and even offer solutions.
Immigrants worked in sweatshops that were dangerous. Many immigrant workers were killed and injured (OK). Even young children worked in these dangerous factories (OK). Reformers and Progressives got laws passed to prohibit child labor. They also got a minimum wage set for women (Document 3).
Dylan Payne Ms. Hoy English 11 12 March 2014 The 1920s Government: The True Alcoholics Prohibition was the period (1920–33) when the Eighteenth Amendment was in force and alcoholic beverages could not legally be manufactured, transported, or sold in the U.S. During the Eighteenth Amendment there was a big group of supporters called Prohibitionist; on the flip side it created many new problems like the Temperance Leagues. Prohibition was not what it was talked up to be and certainly did not boom the economy. Bootleggers, Blind Pigs, Doggeries, and Drug Store Whiskeys were major reasons for overcrowded jails and courthouses during the period. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby shows the effects of Prohibition, the different views of
Some of the smartest individuals and the leaders of most countries decided torture was inhumane and should be outlawed. Thus torture was one of the first issues that the United Nations dealt with (Dieringer). The act of torture is so inhumane and such a pressing issue that the leaders of the world outlawed it as quickly as possible to save lives. Torture is so powerful and so evil that it may deprive someone of his will to exist. Depriving a person of his will to live is the same, if not worse than killing that person.
It is odd to me that with numbers such as these there are not major reform bills going through to curb this problem. We have government run departments such as OSHA telling companies where to store paint and how to revamp a mattress properly when reselling it yet we are not stopping this huge slap in the face to our justice system. People are openly breaking the law, American laws, and it drains our economy and then to make matters worse we spend more by incarcerating them here in the U.S. instead of sending them back to their home country or even worse have work prisons where they can work to earn back the money they wasted that once came from Joe the working man. There are a number of things that could happen that yes, would cost money to implement but they would not cost what the current cost is to educate, feed and care for the illegal immigrants. Amnesty is over rated and it is killing our country, economy and culture.
In weekly reading, The Common People Are Being Robbed, Mary indicated that “The Puritans fleeing from oppression became oppressors”, and so did the farmers. They just need money, land, and transportation but didn’t want to defy the government. As the reading shows, the progressive movement started with raising public voice about reforming by publicity the book like Upton
The recall brought Mattel lawsuit dealing with children illnesses and deficiencies, Causing Mattel to lose lots of money. Another big problem for Mattel was trade market and not manufacturing their product themselves and allowing the manufacturing to happen in China. This caused Mattel to not have control of what they were producing. This also gave Mattel’s competitors a chance to move up in the industry due to making more sale caused by Mattel’s lost in the consumer base. Alternatives Mattel needs to make a standard set of rules and regulation that need to be followed by everyone associated with the company.
The 18th amendment contributed to the rise of organized crime because it created a lot of underground business. From killings to people living in poverty, that’s what the prohibition caused. If people really thought that prohibiting alcohol to be sold leally were going to help the way that people lived during this time, they were wrong. A lot of people were against the law, they argued that if they banned alcohol legal businesses were going to go broke and that was not going to help the economy get better. But alcohol was not the only thing breaking families apart they said, after the war, soldiers would come home and find themselves in a whole, struggling to find jobs.
Another way the workers sent a message to the government was through strikes, there were around 400 strikes between 1933 and 1935. Others Germans acted as spies and leaked industrial and military secrets to other foreign countries such as the USSR. Although the workers had the numbers to demand attention they lacked the organisational skills needed to overthrow a strong leader like Hitler. As time went on there was less open resistance as people were scared of being arrested as the punishment for speaking out against the government could often be