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Women’s Suffrage
In 1890 the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association
groups united to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) -
Erdman Act
prohibited discrimination against railroad workers because of union membership and provided for mediation of railway labor disputes . -
National Child Committee
The National Child Labor Committee was established with the goal of abolishing all child labor -
The jungle
Upton Sinclair (1878 – 1968), publishes his muckraking novel The Jungle about labor exploitation and appalling conditions in meatpacking plants.
