Class 19 (10/7)
Progressive visions
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A protean movement?
The foil: the Gilded Age
Issues: the cities
Issues: higher levels
The pure food crusade
Purity, safety, and the wonders of chemistry
Dr. Wiley's cause
Food distribution
Muckracking and coalition politics
What does it mean to be scientific in politics?
Taylor's scientific management
Objective knowledge, consensus beyond interest, and expertise
Some questions
Presuppositions: conservation as example
Expertise vs. representative government
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| Progressive Era (1890s-1910s) Gilded Age (1870s-1890s) Theodore Roosevelt (Pres. 1901-1909) Harvey W. Wiley (1844-1930) muckrakers Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) Pure Food and Drug Law, Meat Inspection Amendment (1906) Frederick W. Taylor (1856-1915) "one best way" |
James Phelan (mayor of San Francisco) Robert LaFollette (governor of Wisconsin) The "beef trust" Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) John Muir (1838-1914) |
What did Taylor mean by "scientific management"?
In what ways did "human engineering" draw from "regular engineering"?
Where else was a belief in "one best way" manifest in American society?