A handful of people had everything, and everyone else had nothing. Brazen corruption. Child labor was rampant. No worker protections. People died young.
This. Is. INSANE.
A handful of people had everything, and everyone else had nothing. Brazen corruption. Child labor was rampant. No worker protections. People died young.
This. Is. INSANE.
There are whole books about the "Panic of 1873," and even a page at the Department of Treasury web site about it!
home.treasury.gov/about/histor...
For now.
There are whole books about the "Panic of 1873," and even a page at the Department of Treasury web site about it!
home.treasury.gov/about/histor...
For now.
Left: housing in New York, 1910
Right: the "lung block" in NYC, so called bc of the spread of TBC.
Left: housing in New York, 1910
Right: the "lung block" in NYC, so called bc of the spread of TBC.