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The Crusade for Honest Weight: The Origins of an Overlooked Progressive Movement1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Timothy Messer-Kruse
Timothy Messer-Kruse
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Bowling Green State University
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For all its typically Progressive Era characteristics and national scope, the “honest weight movement” has long been hidden in plain sight. Seemingly ubiquitous and mundane, the common grocery scale was the intersecting borderland of industry, government, marketplace, and consumer. On the one hand, the regulation of weights and measures, being one of the first forms of governmental regulation of the marketplace dating back to the ancient world, seems so unobjectionable and commonplace that the Progressive Era movement for its more rigorous and efficient administration does not seem like it could have been a very controversial proposal. Who, after all, could object to clear and consistent standards of measurement and their universal application? Thus, the appearance of a movement to reform the ubiquitous and the mundane has not elicited the same historical attention that novel forms of government regulation have.

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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 241 - 286
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2006

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