- Feb 2023
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Our cause is the cause of the plain people. It is the cause of social and industrial justice to be achieved by the plain people through the resolute and conscientious use of all the machinery, public and private,State and National, governmental and individual, which is at their command.
As Rosevelt describes, through the "Plain people" economic success is contingent upon the hard-working men and women who work tirelessly to provide goods for the country and world. By the 1900's, "the United States was producing a third of the worlds goods--".
Shi, D. E. (2019). America: A narrative history (11th ed., Vol. 2). W.W. Norton & Company. p. 727
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The boss system is based on and thrives by injustice. Wherever you get the boss, wherever you get a Legislature controlled by mercenary politicians, there you will always find that privilege flourishes; there you will always find the great special interests striking hands with the crooked politicians and helping them plunder the people in the interest of both wings of the corrupt alliance.
This form of Quid-pro-Quo in the modern day can be defined as lobbying. Corporations use this tactic in order to influence government decision by written or oral communication. Compensation to political decision makers is another way that big company can gain influence within the government.
https://www.ncsl.org/ethics/how-states-define-lobbying-and-lobbyist .
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Every man who fights for the protection of children from excessive toil, for the protection of women from working in factories for too long hours, for the protection, in short, of the workingman and his family so that he may live decently and bring up his children honorably and well—every man who works for any such cause is our fellow worker and we hail him as such.
During the Gilded Age (1865-1898) groups of working-class citizens mostly comprised of men began forming labor unions. These unions protested better wages and safe working conditions. As a result, Companies avoided hiring men who belonged to unions and began hiring more women and children. Because women and children had very little social rights in the workplace, employers now were able to exploit women and children for cheap labor. Shi, D. E. (2019). America: A narrative history (11th ed., Vol. 2). W.W. Norton & Company.
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