According to Administration For Children and Family stated that In the United States‚ children are trafficking in many different sectors for instance prostitution on the streets or in residence‚ hotel‚ dance bar or massage parlor; factory‚ or meatpacking work; construction; domestic labor in a home; restaurant/bar work; illegal drug trade and many more. Furthermore‚ Trafficked individuals may hint at disgrace or confusion; be ravenous and malnourished; experience traumatic holding and fear towards
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food and drug act was passed which prohibited the selling of dangerous medicines and impure foods. Along with that‚ the Meat Inspection Act was passed and it helped eliminate diseases caused by meat because it enforced sanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. However‚ Roosevelt’s greatest success was in the conservation of the environment. The Newlands Act was passed which created a way for government to irrigate deserts. Roosevelt became an admired public figure because of his involvement
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received much popularity. However in 1904 an editor from the well renown socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason asked Sinclair to travel to Chicago to record and document the lifestyle of stockyard workers. Having spent seven weeks in the city’s meatpacking plants‚ Sinclair learned countless details about the work itself. He also documented the home lives of the workers and the structure of the business. Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle was spawned from his research and was initially published in Appeal
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subjective‚ quantitative or qualitative evidence (and objective too). Case studies may be a personal accounts or experiences that portray the feelings and impressions and the manner in which those under investigation have been affected. Case studies or evidences attract response from politicians and those in power to make or change policies in defining social problems and also find solutions to them. (Newman and Yeates‚ 2008‚ p. 175) (Are all case studies used in this way or for this purpose?). On
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Prohibition‚ which prohibited the sale of alcohol was an attempt to improve personal behavior. As a result of Upton Sinclair’s book‚ “The Jungle” there were inspections of the meatpacking plants of Chicago and ultimately brought on the implementation of several reform bills on how products are produced and packaged. In 1906‚ two bills were passed to protect consumers: The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. The
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THE DIRTY TRUTH As the Civil War concluded and the era of Reconstruction began‚ America tried to cure the tribulations society had fostered. More specifically‚ the Progressive Movement tried to repair the problems by reformation and cultivation of a better country. Some activists removed themselves from civilization and created utopian communities‚ while others struggled for equal rights and temperance. However‚ the success of all reforms came greatly from the work of “muckraking” journalists
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Between 1850 thru 1920 approximately 25 million immigrants entered into the United States. This wave of immigrants was known as the new wave coming from eastern‚ central‚ and southern Europe unlike their earlier predecessors of immigrants who migrated from the British Isles or northern Europe. Many fleed because of crop failure‚ land and job shortages‚ rising taxes‚ and famine. Economic‚ personal freedoms and religious persecution inspired many immigrants to migrate to the United States with the
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In this world‚ people always needs to have a paid work in order to make a living for themselves. Usually typical work lasts 8- hours and work for at least 5 days a week‚ but there are times where people work more because what they are doing is important or they get paid more for working more. However sometimes‚ companies abuse this by making the worker work more and get paid less‚ a problem that is still existing in the world. In order for the workers’ voices to be heard‚ they must come together
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the most dangerous profession these poor working conditions and horrible treatment of employees in the plants are beyond comprehension to what we see in modern everyday jobs‚ a lifestyle most of us take for granted. Schlosser talks about how meatpacking is the most dangerous job in the United States. He says "The injury rate in a slaughterhouse is about three times higher than the rate of a typical American Factory" (172). Every year more than forty thousand meat packing workers get injured (beyond
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industry was hindered economically on a global scale. Michael Hussey‚ author of Global Muckraking‚ described the situation saying‚ "U.S. industrialists also reacted with dismay to the possible loss to the American economy from the publicity regarding meatpacking processes" (Hussey). American industry was threatened due to the work of one junior journalist. The threat became reality soon enough. "In Germany‚ for example‚ the German Butchers’ Association petitioned the government not to enter into a treaty
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