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A 4 page overview of the books by Thomas Bell and Eric Schlosser. This paper presents the contention that the same societal problems which confronted the Progressives in the early part of the twentieth century, problems similar to those revealed in “Out of this Furnace”, continue to confront us today. “Fast Food Nation” reveals, in fact, the same societal hierarchy and injustices which were present in society some one-hundred years ago. No additional sources are listed.
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The twentieth century has dramatically rolled over into the twenty-first. Many things have changed. Many others, however, have stayed astonishingly the same.
Indeed, the very issues that confronted the Progressives at the beginning of the twentieth century continue to confront us at the beginning of the twenty-first. Issues like economic inequality,
poor working conditions, and inequality between the races and the sexes continue to occupy an indelible niche in American society. An interesting insight into the way American life has
changed over the last century can be found in a comparison of Eric Schlossers "Fast Food Nation" and Thomas Bells "Out of this Furnace". What we find is that,
indeed, those same societal problems which confronted the Progressives in the early part of the twentieth century, problems similar to those revealed in "Out of this Furnace", continue to confront
us today. "Fast Food Nation" reveals, in fact, the same societal hierarchy and injustices which were present in society some one-hundred years ago.
The Progressive Movement played an extremely important role in American society during the first twenty years of the twentieth century. There were numerous reasons for
this but each centers around the growing industrialization of the country and the growing population. Immigrants flooded the country and their arrival, and the high number of domestic births
which had existed since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. Manpower was a prerequisite to industrialization and the United States was teaming with men and women eager
and ready to work on the factory assembly lines. The Progressive Movement evolved to meet the need of the working class for a unified voice, a need which in
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