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Canada and the United States

Lorine Swainston Goodwin. The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879–1914. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 1999. Pp. viii, 352. $45.00.

The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Act of 1906, according to Lorine Swainston Goodwin, was a triumph of women's activism and participatory democracy. In writing about the grass-roots efforts to make consumers safe, she focuses on the local work of female reformers. Her book suggests that the roots of Progressivism extend well back into the nineteenth century and that demands for reform were far less elitist than they have been portrayed. 1

Goodwin opens with an explanation of the origins of the movement, showing that it arose in a number of settings and had diverse goals, among them keeping unsafe adulterants and contaminants out of food, eliminating alcohol, controlling the contents of patent medicines, and regulating the use of addictive drugs. Those who have read Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) are well aware of the abuses in the stockyards; readers of this book will learn in graphic detail of the abuses in other industries. . . .

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