HIST 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jacob Riis, Horizontal Integration, Gustavus Franklin Swift
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Hist 128, 9/4/15 recitation: wealth and inequality, late 1800s. The changing nature of work: shift to unskilled labor, work conditions, low wages, 60 hour weeks, sweatshops, assembly lines. The corporation and its impact: corporations attracted investment, vertical integration: gustavus swift, horizontal integration: standard oil, trusts controlled prices. Jane addams, leader of settlement houses: settlement houses giving unfortunate a place to stay for work, believes in the social gospel of wealth, encouraging the poor to pick themselves up, no handouts. Jacob riis, large newspaper writer and photographer: known for photos of tenement housing/poverty. Horatio algers, author: known for novels about rags to riches stories.
