By: _____________________________ 
Mrs. Frye – Period 7 
Lewis Hine was a muckraker trying to stop
child labor. He went around the country and
used photography to show society how bad
child labor was. The result of his work and his
photographs were that child labor laws were
passed. In addition to photographing child
labor, he also photographed the empire state
building and wrote “Men at work” and
“Children at work”. Because of his work child
labor laws were soon passed.
Jacob Riis was a muckraker trying to get the
ghettos and tenements cleaner. To try to fix
this, he went undercover and took pictures of
the immigrants and their miserable lives in the
tenements. The results were that his work
raised public awareness, and people began to
notice the bad conditions. They started to
clean the tenements and passed building
codes. Before Riis became a muckraker he was
offered a job from a news agency and gladly
took it.
Upton Sinclair wanted to expose the dirty
working conditions of the meat packing
industry in Chicago. To try to get the meat
packing industry cleaned up he wrote a book
called “The Jungle” to show how bad the
working conditions were. The results of his
work was that laws were passed for meat
inspections, which later led to food
inspections. People’s reactions to his book
were that they were disgusted and they were
shocked at how terrible their food was being
treated.
Lisa P. Jackson started an organization-EPA-in order
to help end pollution. Her point of pollution is that
it should stop and we should keep the world clean.
She wants to do this by cleaning up the major
pollution areas like the factories and landfills. Today
in most schools there are lots of recycling bins and
recycling programs to help with this issue.
We agree with her because no one wants to live in a
world full of trash. It is up to the people who live on
this planet to clean it up. We cant just leave it up
to one organization to fix all the problems.