The Muckrakers: Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida... › Customer reviews

Muckraker: Reform-oriented research journalist in the progressive era. The latter work raises concerns about time problems including poor industrial working conditions, poor urban living conditions, and unethical business practices. Distinguished critics include novelist Upton Sinclair, photographer Jacob Riis, and journalists Ida M. Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens. The era of progress between the 1890s and the 1920s was the era of widespread social activities and political reforms throughout the United States. The main purpose of the progressive movement is to eliminate government corruption. The campaign is intended for political machines and their bosses. By eliminating these corrupt representatives, another direct democratic means will be established. They also seek antitrust antitrust ("trust destroyed") and corporate supervision.

The most famous of these are Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair (see The Muckrakers' entry). They asked about the unsanitary situation of Chicago livestock farms by nonfiction (eg the book published by Taber in 1904 "History of The Standard Oil Companies") and novels (Upton Sinclair's 1906 Novel "The Jungle ") Was written. To take home the abuses of the American industrial era. Some popular magazines, especially Collier and McClure specialize in reporting abuse of power by large companies, but Roosevelt makes it easier for government officials to solve misuse problems. The continued popularity of these magazines proves that the public is increasingly dissatisfied with the evolution of increasingly strong commercial monopolies. The constant disclosure of the desire of a company makes a business big game - the so-called robbery of the industrial revolution - a very popular symbol of abuse of power by large companies