For the past 125 years, there have been a number of journalists who exposed corrupt business practices. Among the journalists who made a name for themselves doing this work were the "Muckrakers," who wrote around the turn of the last century (1900-1910). They included Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair. Their investigative books and essays about corporate greed and corruption and unsafe working conditions changed the society of that time.
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