With the rising power of big businesses, the plight from poor urban workers became overlooked, forcing them to work long hours in detrimental environments. Progressive leaders realized that one who was homeless or starving forced themselves to take a job no matter how little they were paid or how dangerous the conditions became (The Gilded Age and Progressive Era). Jane Adams, co-founder of the Hull House looked upon the developing cities with deep sorrow. She saw “hideous human need and suffering…myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless and work worn” (The Gilded Age: A History in Documents). It seemed as if the poor were workhorses; kept in dirty stables only living to stitch the next shirt or mine the next stone. Workers suffered diseases
