HIST-1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: National Urban League, Luddite
4 Feb 2020
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[a multifaceted movement with a range of components undermine influence of boss politics, bring more efficiency to urban government, address issues of urbanization and industrialization, focus on plight of the poor, etc. ] [trying to address all transformational issues and urban ills] Objectives of progressive reform: reduction of the power of big business (not as extreme as the luddites) Improvement in the lives of the poor/improved race relations: new phenomenon systemic poverty. American rights: multi-racial founding (and middle to upper class white support) early success, federal legislation against child labor [keating-owen act of 1916 prohibited interstate sale of products manufactured with child labor (under age 14); ruled unconstitutional by the supreme. Differing views and arguments concerning the historiography regarding progressivism. Historiography of progressivism: a search for order : robert wiebe the search for order, progressive reform a method to rationally reorder american society, rise of a new middle class of bureaucrats (different definition of middle class)
