Today in class people presented their assigned blogs. I learned that the progressive era was from 1890 to 1920. Some of the things that people do to make the work places safer was that they made people wear ear muffs. Many people would loose limbs in the machines. Many people would work 14 to 15 hours a day. Sometimes even 6 to 7 days a week. Worker's compensation is that if you have a work related accident on the job they would pay for you to recover. You have to be at least 14 to work. The progressives made these workers compensation laws. Workers safety ousah they are a program that go around and can shut work places down if they are to risky. Florance Kelly was chief inspector in checking out work places.Before progressives made changes it was very common to have little kids work. They would like to hire kids because they had little hands and could adapt better to grabbing things in small places. Kids would not get paid very much because people knew that they wouldn't argue about not getting paid very good. Adults really like that they worked because it would give them more money to buy food. Keating-Owen act prohibited the pass of goods across the state line that were made by children (1916). Two years later the supreme court ruled it unconstitutional.Prohibition was the banning or something such as alcohol. People wanted prohibition to come about people people were getting drunk all the time around the streets and falling in gutters and such. People thought that that was morally wrong. People wanted public intoxication illegal. Women really pushed for this. Alcohol would cause prostitution, hitting off the wife and things like beating their wife. Carrie A Nation was really big in getting prohibition to take place. She would go into saloons and chew them out and then take an axe to the saloon. After a while she got really sick of it. She started praying about it. God spoke to her and told her to go to keawa. She then began to smash saloons. She did this with rocks. She was arrested for this many times. She then started to ruin things things with a hatchet. She made up little hatchets and sold them to people.I think that the keating-owen act was very important. I really agree with kids not being able to work until a certain age and can only have a certain amount of hours. I really would hate to imagine what it would be like to be a kid and have to work in those harsh of conditions and maybe even be injured for the rest of your life.
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