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America sought out a remedy to "The Labor Question" through the Progressive Era in an effort to enough time unrest and assault that flared so often in the past due 19th and early 20th century. In the girls' garment industry, a distinctive experiment in commercial democracy brought mutually labor, management, and the general public. As Richard Greenwald explains, it was an attempt to "square free market capitalism with ideals of democracy to provide a fair and simply work environment." Led by Louis Brandeis, this group negotiated the "Protocols of Peace." However in the midst of this experiment, 146 largely young, immigrant women passed away in the Triangle Stock Open fire of 1911. Due to the fire, another, interrelated experiment, New York's Stock Investigating Commission (FIC) - led by Robert Wagner and Al Smith - created one of the major reform successes of the time. The Triangle Open fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Period New York uses these associated episodes to show the increasing interdependence of labor, industry, and their state. Greenwald explains how the Protocols and the FIC best illustrate the change of commercial democracy and the struggle for political and economical justice. The e book is published by Temple College or university Press.
