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Introduction The purposes of each case study assignment include the following: To hone your abilities to research using scholarly sources To advance critical thinking and writing skills To compile a response to the prompts provided To explore a historical topic and make connections to change over time Instructions Pick one (1) of the following topics. Then, address the corresponding questions/prompts for your selected topic. Use at least one (1) documented example of the corresponding primary source in your writing. Option 1: Big Business (Monopolies) and Exploitation of Workers View the following resource: Link (video): The Progressive Era (Links to an external site.) (27:30) Browse and read one (1) of the following: Link (library article): The Triangle Disaster: How a Fire a Century ago at a New York Clothing Factory Changed U.S. Labor Laws (Links to an external site.) Link (library article): The Pullman Strike (Links to an external site.) Then, address the following: Explain if big business leaders were “captains of industry,” “shrewd businessmen,” or “robber barons.” Based on one of the resources noted for this option, assess American working conditions and exploitation of workers in the Age of Industry. Analyze the role that government played in reforming American working conditions. Explain the benefits of the Federal Government regulations of monopolies. Analyze which progressive presidents attained economic justice and reform for workers. Option 2: Who is A Progressive? Review the following site: Link (website): Presidential Election of 1912: A Resource Guide (Links to an external site.) Then, address the following: According to Roosevelt, what are the characteristics of a progressive? Explain and give examples of the characteristics of “anti-progressives.” Trace what types of activities “anti-progressives” engaged in? Analyze the goals of progressivism. Explain what areas of society progressives addressed? Analyze the progressive achievements Roosevelt highlights in his speech? Option 3: World War I Review the following resources: Link (video): A War to End All Wars: Part 2 (Links to an external site.) (6:56) Link (library article): The Treaty of Versailles and the Rise of Nazism (Links to an external site.) Then, address the following: Trace the origins of World War I, and assess if the world war was inevitable in 1914? Explain if it was possible for the United States to maintain neutrality in World War I. If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not. Analyze if the United States should have entered World War I to make the world safe for democracy. Analyze if the Treaty of Versailles was a fair and effective settlement for lasting world peace. Explain if the United States Senate should have approved of the Treaty of Versailles. Writing Requirements (APA format) Length: 3-4 pages (not including title page or references page) 1-inch margins Double spaced 12-point Times New Roman font Title page References page In-text citations that correspond with your end references The following books are required for part of this essay Minimum of 3 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook). The sources associated with each topic selection below can be used as part of the 3 scholarly sources. OpenStax. (2019). U.S. history. OpenStax CNX. Retrieved from https://cnx.org/contents/p7ovuIkl@6.18:gMXC1GEM@7/Introduction American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-59141-000The Triangle
Disaster
How a fire a century ago at a New York clothing factory
changed U.S. labor laws
The fire that broke out on March 25,1911, at the Triangle
Shirtwaist factory in New York City lasted only half an hour.
But it killed 146 people, many of them teenage girls, and had
an enormous impact on the nation.
Fed by oily floors and bins full of flammable material, the fire spread
guickly through the factory where young immigrants made blouses.
There was no sprinkler system. Many burned to death behind locked
exit doors. Others plunged to the ground when a rusty fire escape
collapsed. More than 50 workers had no alternative but to jump from
a ninth-floor window as a crowd below looked on in horror.
The Triangle factory fire was one of the deadliest workplace
disasters in American history.
“It was an incredibly galvanizing event for the nation’s labor
movement and the rights of workers,” says Bruce Raynor, former
president of Workers United, which represents garment workers.
“After Triangle, people were so shocked, not only by the terrible
disaster, but by the drama of these young immigrant women who
were treated as less than human.”
Within a few years of the Triangle fire, New York passed 36
safety laws, and other states soon followed. By 1938, Congress
had banned child labor and set a national minimum wage.
—Patricia Smith
the major structural upgrades that are
needed for them to be safe. (Of the 2,000
Bangladeshi factories that have been
inspected so far, only 79 had passed final
inspection as of March 2017.)
That’s one reason unsafe working
conditions persist. Last year, a garment
factory fire in India killed 13 people.
Another fire this past June injured more
than 20 knitwear factory workers in
Bangladesh. Some jumped out of thirdstory
windows to escape the flames.
Environmental Toll
Fast fashion also takes a heavy toll on the
environment. The industry consumes
enormous amounts of water and other
natural resources. Producing enough
cotton for one pair of jeans takes about
1,800 gallons of water—the equivalent of
about 105 showers.
Manufacturing polyester, which is
made from petroleum, releases dangerous
gases into the air. And farming cotton
accounts for a quarter of all pesticides
used in the United States. (The
U.S. sends about 70 percent of the cotton
it grows overseas, where it’s turned into
clothing.) Some of those pesticides can
cause asthma and other health problems,
and the chemicals pollute fresh water.
The damage doesn’t end once clothing
is made. Americans on average
trash more than 70 pounds
of clothes and shoes a year.
Most are burned or piled in
landfills, where synthetic
fibers can take hundreds of
years to break down.
“A lot of the problems
in the fashion industry are
things that are happening
in other places: air and water pollution
in China, poverty and low wages in
Bangladesh,” says Cline. “The waste is
happening in our own backyard.”
As more people have become aware
of the ugly side of fast fashion, the
push for ethically made clothing has
grown. In the U.S., hundreds of startups
are creating clothes out of recycled
or organic fabrics. These companies use
materials from U.S. factories, where they
can better monitor working conditions.
Big brands are trying to be more ecoconscious,
as well. H&M, for example,
offers customers store credit to recycle
clothes at its retail locations.
“I think we’re going to see big fashion
brands become leaders in
sustainable clothes and make
them accessible and more
affordable,” Cline predicts.
But experts agree it will
take more than just efforts
by clothing companies to
remedy the problems of fast
fashion. Local factory owners,
global retailers, and consumers
must all play a role.
If teenage shoppers, to whom much of
fast fashion is marketed, educate themselves
about how their clothes are made
and think carefully about what they buy,
it can make a real difference, experts say.
“It’s everybody’s problem,” says
Posner, “and it’s everybody’s responsibility
to come together and solve it.” •
Many big
brands
pledged
to improve
factory
conditions.
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