2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30877-3
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George Seldes’ War for the Public Good

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“…In one area, meat inspection, the work of the American author, Upton Sinclair, who centered his novel on the trials and tribulations of a Lithuania immigrant family and its patriarch Jurgis Rudkus, influenced the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Kantor, 1976;Graf, 2020). The assault on unfettered big business, inspired by a generation of pre-World War I "muckrakers" (Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Thomas W. Lawson, Brand Whitlock, and perhaps most prominently, Upton Sinclair and Ida M. Tarbell) had begun (Fordham, 2019;Korr, 2020). Although the age of the "muckrakers" had largely faded by [1910][1911][1912], government regulation of business was henceforth to have a significant impact on American business (see Hunter, Shannon, O'Sullivan, & Blodgett, 2011;Hunter, 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In one area, meat inspection, the work of the American author, Upton Sinclair, who centered his novel on the trials and tribulations of a Lithuania immigrant family and its patriarch Jurgis Rudkus, influenced the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Kantor, 1976;Graf, 2020). The assault on unfettered big business, inspired by a generation of pre-World War I "muckrakers" (Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Thomas W. Lawson, Brand Whitlock, and perhaps most prominently, Upton Sinclair and Ida M. Tarbell) had begun (Fordham, 2019;Korr, 2020). Although the age of the "muckrakers" had largely faded by [1910][1911][1912], government regulation of business was henceforth to have a significant impact on American business (see Hunter, Shannon, O'Sullivan, & Blodgett, 2011;Hunter, 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%