Compare and contrast how the labor unions, the Populists, and the Progressives responded to the changes wrought by industrialization and corporate...

Ultimately,
this question refers to the political and economic realities taking shape under the Gilded Age,
when business operations were getting larger and larger, as the United States transitioned into
the Industrial Age. The thing to keep in mind about this era is that it was defined by
laissez-faire capitalism, and there were no regulations in place to protect the rights of
workers as there are in today's United States. Poor wages, dangerous working conditions,
extraordinarily long hours, child labor: these were all common to the time period in
question.

In some respects, the most difficult part of your question to
address is the subject of unionization. Unlike the Populists and the Progressives (which tend to
reflect specific political movements), there were multiple approaches and organizations which
have collectively shaped the history of labor in the United States. The earliest national
unionization movement (The National Labor Union), for example, looked towards
political...