Timeline.
1870
John D. Rockefeller creates Standard Oil.
1880's
By this time Rockefeller's Standard Oil controls 90 percent of the nation's oil industry
1880
US Census states that of the workforce in America, 1.1 million were children.
1881
Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that almost every worker interviewed complained of overwork, poor housing, and tyrannical employers (Foner, 488-489).
1886
Great Upheaval and the Haymarket Affair.
1888
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
1890
By this time two-thirds of American's worked for wages.
1890
By this time the top one percent of American's received the same total income as the bottom half of the population. Additionally, the top one percent owned more property than the remaining 99 percent. (Foner, 482).
1894
Wealth Against Commonwealth by Henry Demarest Lloyd
1899
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
1900
US Census states that of the workforce in America, 1.7 million were children.
1901
U.S. Steel is created by J.P. Morgan by combining eight companies. This became the first billion dollar corporation.
1906
US Census states that of the workforce in America, 2 million were children.
1907
Samuel McCune Lindsay write the article Child Labor in the United States.
1917
The Keating – Owen act is passed.
1918
The Keating – Owen act is declared unconstitutional, resulting in the resumed employment of children in the workforce.
John D. Rockefeller creates Standard Oil.
1880's
By this time Rockefeller's Standard Oil controls 90 percent of the nation's oil industry
1880
US Census states that of the workforce in America, 1.1 million were children.
1881
Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that almost every worker interviewed complained of overwork, poor housing, and tyrannical employers (Foner, 488-489).
1886
Great Upheaval and the Haymarket Affair.
1888
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
1890
By this time two-thirds of American's worked for wages.
1890
By this time the top one percent of American's received the same total income as the bottom half of the population. Additionally, the top one percent owned more property than the remaining 99 percent. (Foner, 482).
1894
Wealth Against Commonwealth by Henry Demarest Lloyd
1899
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
1900
US Census states that of the workforce in America, 1.7 million were children.
1901
U.S. Steel is created by J.P. Morgan by combining eight companies. This became the first billion dollar corporation.
1906
US Census states that of the workforce in America, 2 million were children.
1907
Samuel McCune Lindsay write the article Child Labor in the United States.
1917
The Keating – Owen act is passed.
1918
The Keating – Owen act is declared unconstitutional, resulting in the resumed employment of children in the workforce.