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Episodes tagged "Progressive Reformers": 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
    date September 1, 1916map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Progressive Reformers, Lewis Hine, Keating-Owen Act, Child Labor

    Congress drafted the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 as a means to regulate youth labor.  This Act was named for its sponsors, Democratic Representatives Edward Keating and Robert Latham Owen.  The Act prohibited the shipment or delivery for shipment for interstate or foreign sale of any goods or services that were produced by laborers under the age of 14 in a factory, shop or cannery and under...

  2. Reforming "The Bend"
    date 1888 to 1897map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Urban Society, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Government, Progressive Reformers

    "Where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old depravity of the Five Points, is "the Bend," foul core of New York's slums." These words, written by Jacob A. Riis in his groundbreaking 1890 work, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, describe a desolate corner of the urban decay that characterized New York's Lower East Side in the late 1800s. Riis, a...

  3. The New York Milk Committee Preaches Pure Milk by Moving Pictures
    date March 24, 1913map New York, New Yorktags Health/Death, Women, Progressive Reformers, Urban Society, Food Regulation

    Urban infants in the 1840s had only a 50 percent chance of living to the age of five. Progressive reformers believed that high infant mortality was linked to adulterated and infectious milk, a concern that remained even after New York passed regulation laws. On March 25, 1913, the Committee of Women's Organizations of the New York Milk Committee held a meeting to educate mothers living in the tenements...

  4. Class Tensions Arise in the Markets of Hester Street
    date January 1, 1898map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Women, Progressive Reformers, Marketplace

    "The true heart of the Lower East Side beat in the street," and Hester Street was no exception. It served as the hub of life in the Lower East Side – teeming with women shopping, children playing and peddlers manning their pushcarts full of food. While the tenements towered high above blocking out the sky, the streets were overrun with peddlers and their pushcarts and their female clientele milling...