Regier, Cornelius C. The era of the muckrakers. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith. This book has a meandering old-fashioned feel and provides much context about tensions over income inequality and the rise of large trusts in the late 19th century. This background information makes the book relevant in the early 21st century, particularly the sections on the pressure on professors who spoke out against the trusts and the ways in which local newspapers tried to build relationships with readers.
Steffens, Lincoln. The autobiography of Lincoln Steffens. New York: Harcourt, Brace. Steffens describes how he reported many of his stories and the reaction that followed. Tichi, Cecelia. Philadelphia: Univ. Based on a course taught by the author, this book is a collection of essays on US muckrakers in the 19th and 20th centuries, It also includes interviews with contemporary muckrakers, such as Barbara Ehrenreich who writes on labor and women and Laurie Garrett who is known for her reporting on health.
This is a selective look at the highlights of some muckraking writing. Patent medicine muckraking: Influences on American pharmacy, social reform, and foreign actors.
Pharmacy in History The authors discuss the impact of muckrakers, such as Edward Bok whose coverage of patent medicines led to the Food and Drug Act.
Not only did the journalism on the subject of ineffective and dangerous medicine lead to new laws in the United States, the muckraking tactics were also used by journalists in the United Kingdom and in Europe. Wilson, Harold S. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Wilson describes the major stories written by the muckrakers as well as their career trajectories, political beliefs, and their relationships to each other and to the magazines for which they worked.
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History and Context of Muckraking Muckraking has been studied for over one hundred years, not only by historians but also by economists and political scientists. How to Subscribe Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions. Jump to Other Articles:. Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Powered by: PubFactory. Most of the muckrakers were journalists. Theodore Roosevelt gave the muckrakers their creative name.
He compared them to someone stirring up the mud at the bottom of a pond. Progressives in Ohio and elsewhere used muckrakers' writings to inspire and promote reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They fought political corruption in urban areas resulting from the power of city bosses like George Cox of Cincinnati through the use of city managers.
Progressives determined that Standard Oil was a monopoly and used the courts to force its dissolution. Urban reformers established settlement houses to provide services for immigrants and other poverty-stricken city dwellers. Both of these pieces of legislation increased the federal government's ability to protect consumers from unsanitary products.
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