That he was a journalist and that he had experience with unemployment are reasons why L Frank Baum was in a good position to understand the problems of the workers in the late nineteenth century.
Specifically, Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919) had a lifelong interest in newspapers. One of his first of many jobs included operating his own printing press and printing a neighborhood newspaper during his teen years. As a married man, the writer moved to Aberdeen in the Dakota Territory and then to Chicago, Illinois to pursue journalistic and other writing pursuits. Writers, and particularly journalists and newspaper editors, uncover much socio- and politico-economic information as part of their job to tell the facts.
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The nineteenth century was from 1800 - 1899.
There were some problems generated by the economic growth in the US in the nineteenth century. This included increase of the cost of labor as well as many migrations. There was a high rate of injuries that related to various jobs.
The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century was created in 1899.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century was created in 1843.
The Nineteenth Century - periodical - was created in 1877.
The Nineteenth Century - periodical - ended in 1972.
Nineteenth-Century Literature was created in 1945.
The Italian word for the nineteenth century is "diciannovesimo secolo."
The economic depression caused the farmers plight in the late nineteenth century. This had caused them to pay excessive shipping and storage prices. The farmers proposed to resolve these problems by taking control of the government so as to regulate these prices.
Where were most of Europe's colonies by the end of the nineteenth century?
No, "mid-nineteenth century" is not capitalized unless it is at the beginning of a sentence.