Chapter 29 Outline Progressive Roots Wealth against Commonwealth: by Henry Lloyd, against the Standard Oil Company The Theory of the Leisure Class: by Thorstein Veblen against ?predatory wealth? and ?conspicuous consumption? How the Other Half Lives: by Danish immigrant journalist Jacob A. Riis, shocked middle-class, depicted the terrors of the New York slums Jane Addams/Lillian Wald: urban pioneers, helped to fuel feminist movement to improve living conditions of the families in cities Raking Muck with the Muckrakers (Culture Exposing) Muckrakers: journalists who worked to get stories of evil- that the people could love to hate Lincoln Steffens: wrote "The Shame of the Cities" which exposed alliance between big business and gov.