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Overview. The early 20th century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. The progressives, as they called themselves, worked to make American society a better and safer place in which to live. They tried to make big business more responsible through regulations of various kinds.
The Progressive Era marked a turning point in American business regulation. As large corporations and trusts dominated the economy, public concern grew over monopolistic practices and lack of competition.
Theodore Roosevelt epitomized progressive rebuke of the outrageous excesses of capitalists and their cronies, but also typified progressive accommodation of the new order. He opposed unregulated business, deemed monopolies antithetical, defended labor unions, supported consumer protections, and initiated government protection of natural resources.
For the first time since the beginning of U.S. industrialization people from all walks of life joined together to demand government regulation of business and industry and other moderate political reforms.
There has been a political movement against the federal government and government regulation of business in general. Increasingly, Supreme Court decisions seem to favor corporate interests and concentrated wealth.
The progressives targeted big business, whose economic power allowed it to dominate politics, enabling it to gain special privileges (such as franchises, monopolies, tariffs) and to avoid regulation for the public good (such as health and safety regulations).
Corruption and inequality during the Gilded Age spurred Progressive Era political and economic reforms.
conjure up a favorite example of a conservative, pro-business Lochner-era jurisprudence frustrating progressive economic and social-welfare regulation. The thesis of laissez-faire constitutionalism is as old as the progressive era itself – invented by a host of early twentieth-century activist scholars (Charles Beard, J. Allen Smith, Frank ...
This article investigates the history of the Progressive Era effort to develop new techniques and technologies of control over American business and corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Constitution and Business Regulation in the Progressive Era: Recent Developments and New Opportunities. March 2016. American Journal of Legal History 56 (1):97-103. DOI:...