Big Business and Labor Quiz

        In the late 1800s rich companies would treat their employees with very little respect, giving them very low wages , long working hours and dangerous working conditions. Social Darwinism justified their maltreatment. Social Darwinism was an idea that came from Darwin's theory of evolution, that competition between individuals and businesses helps the society to change and grow. That the rich could take advantage of the poor because they were strong and the weak deserved to suffer at their expense. The government refused to get involved in company affairs such as employee treatment partially because of an ideology called Laissez Faire a belief that the government should have as little to do with businesses Because the government believed that the monopolists were helping the economy grow.