"The coal is hard, and accidents to the hands, such as cut, broken, or crushed fingers, are common among the boys. Sometimes there is a worse accident: a terrified shriek is heard, and a boy is mangled and torn in the machinery, or disappears in the chute to be picked out later smothered and dead. Clouds of dust fill the breakers and are inhaled by the boys, laying the foundations for asthma and miners' consumption."
John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of the Children, 1906
This passage is describing a situation that was attacked by writers known as
Responses
A Populists.
B Muckrakers.
C the Lost Generation.
D the Beat Generation.