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A 4 page research paper that, first of all, discusses the issues and concerns of the Progressive era, and then argues that these issues are still applicable today. The writer cites Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and compares this to Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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With industrialization, people flocked to the cities, and became factory workers, subject to the control of managers, which was a situation that gave big business not only wealth but power.
In order to combat the expanding power of corporate interests, Progressive politics argued for strengthening the regulatory power of the federal government. Today, corporate power has increased to an extraordinary
degree. This has caused many of the issues, which concerned the Progressives to reemerge in contemporary society. During the Progressive era, which began in the late nineteenth century and extended
into the twentieth, people were concerned that corruption and the effects of special interests, funded by big business, could erode the foundations of democracy. Progressives, as a remedy
to big business, turned towards strengthening the power of the federal government. Reforms gave the political forces that favored controlling the power of corporate America the tools necessary for regulating
corporate power (Mattson 337). President Teddy Roosevelt followed the ideas of a major Progressive Era intellectual, Herbert Croly (Mattson 338). Like Croly, Roosevelt believed that the powers of the federal
government needed to be enhanced in order to ensure democratic values, and also, to level the playing field for ordinary citizens against increasingly powerful corporations (Mattson 338). Herbert Croly expressed
the sentiments of the time very well when he said that political leaders had to use Hamiltonian means to ensure Jeffersonian ends (Mattson 338). (Alexander Hamilton pioneered the development of
a stronger federal government in the wake of the American Revolution and was opposed by Thomas Jefferson who favored the values of democracy and equality.) The abuses of big
business during this era are summed up concisely in Upton Sinclairs expose of the meatpacking industry entitled The Jungle (1903). The Jungle tells the story of an immigrant family from
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