... at work in sweatshops. In 1893, McClure's Magazine, founded by Samuel Sidney McClure, ran a series of muckraking articles by Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. These articles often became books. Jacob Riis' articles on tenement life were published in How the Other Half Lives in 1890. Lincoln Steffens' The Shame of the Cities written in 1904 described corrupt deals that characterized big-city ... two Acts: the Pure Food and Drug Act, which forbade the sale, production, shipping, and etc of mislabeled food products. The Meat Inspection Act ensured minimum standards of sanitations. Fiction bo...

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