Reading Post Week One

Please post a 500-700 word response to this week's reading assignment. Below are some questions I pose as prompts for this reflection; you do not need to answer all of them, but may choose one as a starting point for your post. This is more than merely a reading summary, but should be a substantive, thought-provoking comment that considers and cites specific examples from the reading to make your point.  You may also use your post to home in on other issues in the reading that you find particularly interesting and provocative.

QUESTIONS:

What do these readings, collectively, tell you about the changes affecting American society of the 1920s and how some Americans were responding to them?  What were the political and social effects of mass industrialization, urbanization, and demographic change? What do the ideas and arguments of Taylor (a famed 'efficiency expert' embraced by Henry Ford and others) tell you about business executives' needs and fears as factories grew large and workers began to organize for increased economic and civil rights?