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Jacob Riis
How the other half lives. A book that shows the hardships that immigrants had to go through in the industralized America. It also showcases how there is a half that lives wealthy rich, and other that lives in total poverty. -
Frank Norris
The Octopus It describes how the wheat farms were having problems. It also tells the story of the amnipulative businesses tthat were present during the time of the Gilded Age, specially the railroad industry, -
Frances Kellor
Out of Work In his book, Kellor explains how big unemployment was in America during the 1870's all the way to the 1900's, due to low job opportunities and bad wages. -
Samuel Hopkins Adams
He hrote the book title "The great American Fraud", in it Adams shows his discontent with medicine and the industry during the Gilded Age period. -
Burton J. Hendrick
The story of life insurance, In this book Hendrick explains how much the payment for life insurance was back in the gilded age, and how it didn't give the people the amount they were rightfully supposed to get. -
Thomas William Lawson
Frenzied Finance In this book Lawson explained how crazy the economics were during the time of the Gilded age. How everything wasn't right and wasn't helping the people witht their economic problems. -
Louis D. Brandeis
In his book titled "Other's people money and how bankers use it" Brandeis expressed how he felt about the industries used the people's money in order to get benefits for their own. -
Edwin Markham
Children in Bondage Abusive business practices were sprouting all across the country. CHildren were affected by this since they had to wrok in order to help their families with the expenses of the house.
