<span>B) Supported progressive reforms for the working class, including a minimum wage and an eight hour workday.
In an 1890 article in the Locomotive Firemen's Magazine, Debs said: "</span>The eight-hour question is up for debate, and the discussion will
proceed until the demand that eight hours shall constitute a day’s
work will he granted. It is a righteous demand." [Debs was organizer of the American Railway Union.]
Incidentally, Eugene Debs was in favor of women's rights and greater equality for blacks. In regard to the racial prejudice displayed by many white persons, Debs wrote: "M<span>y observation is that the less real ground there is for such indignant assertion of self -superiority, the more passionately it is proclaimed."</span>
Mass production of printed material. Before the press, each page of a Bible, for example, could take all day to write. After the press it would take a few days to carve the stamp, but then you could print 50 copies of the page in a very short time.
Advantages—abundant natural resources, a stable government with relatively lax regulations, and a large workforce—made it the dominant industrial power by the 20th century.
