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Sources of Progressive Reform

Sources of Progressive Reform. By: James holstad and Sabine pendry. Labor, the Machine, and Reform. Child labor law Workmen’s compensation law Limitation on working hours for women Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire New York commission reforms. Western Progressives.

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Sources of Progressive Reform

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  1. Sources of Progressive Reform By: James holstad and Sabine pendry

  2. Labor, the Machine, and Reform • Child labor law • Workmen’s compensation law • Limitation on working hours for women • Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire • New York commission reforms

  3. Western Progressives • Western and Eastern differences • Hiram Johnson • George Norris • William Borah • Federal, not local Reform

  4. African Americans and Reform • Booker T. Washington • W.E.B Du Bois • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Guinn v. United States • Buchanan v. Worley

  5. Current day: Minimum Wage • $15,080 full time • Two-person household federal poverty threshold $15,130 • Support raising minimum wage • economic stimulus • Oppose raising minimum wage • burden on employers

  6. by Frank Newport, Jeffrey M. Jones, and Lydia Saad Baby Boomers to Push U.S. Politics in the Years Ahead

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