Tighter Big Business From Abusing Their Power - 995 Words

America was one of the first few countries that started to industrialize. Throughout the industrial revolution, technology flourish and a new era began. Farms were demolished and farmers moved from the countryside to the urban areas. Factories opened up to recruit more workers. The increased in job opportunities have lured many immigrants to the United States. With the increase in economic growth, the gap between the wealth and the middle class widen and a new class was introduced known as the working class. This was the start of capitalism and in this period of time it was also known as the â€Å"gilded age† that Mark Twain introduced, where the corrupt side of society was covered with a thin sheet of gold. Under, all that wealth and luxury†¦show more content†¦This allowed the economy to bloom. However, it has also created room for corruption. In a scholarly journal, Information, markets, and corruption: Transcontinental railroads in the Gilded Age, White Richard stated that corruption â€Å"consisted of quotidian faults-lying, deception, and dishonesty-played out largely on paper and along telegraph lines† (White). These wrongdoings allowed trustees to use their personal advantages to further corrupt society and as an outcome children and adult workers suffer. At the beginning of the industrial revolution in America, laws that prevented children from working was not established, and this allowed businesses to utilized children as an inexpensive form of labor. By the 1900s there were over one million children working in the labor force. Most of those young workers were from a poor or immigrant family. They were put to work at an early age usually between five to sixteen years old. In the article, â€Å"The History of Child Labor During the American Industrial Revolu tion† by Jennifer Wagner, discusses about how most of these youngsters worked in unsafe conditions in: †¦textile mills, coalmines, flourmills, machine shops, garment factories, tobacco factories, shoe factories, and carpet plants, in order to provide a source of income for their families. In numerous industries children labored around unsafe machinery. Children labored for many hours, but received wages that were much lower than those received by adult laborers for comparable