Correlation Between Woodrow Wilson's Democracy And The Progressives Industrial Democracy
In “World Leader,” Alan Dawley examined the correlation between Woodrow Wilson’s democracy and the progressives’ industrial democracy during World War I. For the first time, The United States emerged as the world’s creditor and a world power that dictated the outcome of a European War, and Woodrow Wilson became a global figure promoting peace and democracy.
Wilson’s democracy came forth in his Fourteen Points, a message of liberty and peace that played as important a part abroad as it did domestically. In large part, the Fourteen Points demanded political and economic freedom from all European nations and colonies. Most importantly, Wilson asked for a free trade, freedom of the seas, and an “open door” policy in which U.S. business relations …show more content…
At the same time, progressives pushed for reform at every turn, from women’s suffrage to shorter working hours. Many progressives, like Walter Weyl, agreed that “military efficiency is useless without economic efficiency.” To keep the war movement going, a movement from open markets to managed markets had begun. Wilson created agencies, such as the War Industries Board, that composed the “administrative state,” that merged business and government together (199). Progressives’ goals of government regulation of trusts, railroads, and telegraph nationalization had temporarily been reached. Concurrently, railroad wages increased while the Railroad Administration took over the Railroad lines and telegraph.
Progressives questioned how a nation that symbolized freedom and purity, whose goal was to protect democracy from German militarism, could not protect blacks at home against mobs, lynching, and Jim Crow laws. The introduction of women into the war industry sparked a push for women’s equality. Congress supported women’s suffrage by passing bills outlawing child labor and setting up the Women in Industry Service (WIS; 205). Mary Anderson, director of WIS, supported narrowing the gap between men and women’s salaries and advocated “equal pay for equal work”
Wilson’s democracy came forth in his Fourteen Points, a message of liberty and peace that played as important a part abroad as it did domestically. In large part, the Fourteen Points demanded political and economic freedom from all European nations and colonies. Most importantly, Wilson asked for a free trade, freedom of the seas, and an “open door” policy in which U.S. business relations …show more content…
At the same time, progressives pushed for reform at every turn, from women’s suffrage to shorter working hours. Many progressives, like Walter Weyl, agreed that “military efficiency is useless without economic efficiency.” To keep the war movement going, a movement from open markets to managed markets had begun. Wilson created agencies, such as the War Industries Board, that composed the “administrative state,” that merged business and government together (199). Progressives’ goals of government regulation of trusts, railroads, and telegraph nationalization had temporarily been reached. Concurrently, railroad wages increased while the Railroad Administration took over the Railroad lines and telegraph.
Progressives questioned how a nation that symbolized freedom and purity, whose goal was to protect democracy from German militarism, could not protect blacks at home against mobs, lynching, and Jim Crow laws. The introduction of women into the war industry sparked a push for women’s equality. Congress supported women’s suffrage by passing bills outlawing child labor and setting up the Women in Industry Service (WIS; 205). Mary Anderson, director of WIS, supported narrowing the gap between men and women’s salaries and advocated “equal pay for equal work”