Muckrakers
Muckrakers were people that lead the change in Americas factories. Muckrakers are journalist who would go inside a company and see how it runs, than expose the factories wrong doings to the public. One of the most famous would be the book the Jungle it was about the meat industry how they would kill the animals to packing to meat. Muckrakers exposed factories for their wrongs and how they harm society. One of the first muckraker expose was the tenements, how the poorer side of society lived with 2-3 family's sharing one bathroom.
Muckrakers showed the public what the poor have to live in. By doing this it showed America that they need to do something and help each other and clean the streets. Muckrakers would also be the cause of health inspections and why there are labels on all foods. So the public knows what they are buying and are relying on the government to make sure that the food is safe and healthy with health inspections.
Muckrakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Q4zPR4G7M
Citations:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/muckraker
http://www.ushistory.org/us/42b.asp
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