ABSTRACT
Socio-economic ills arising from industrialization in the late nineteenth century galvanised white, middle-and upper-class reformers in both Britain and the US to embrace Progressivism as a solution. Muckraking had no chance of emerging as a valid subject until British historians reconceptualised their understanding of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, with Progressivism as a central organising concept. Originating in the late nineteenth century, muckraking has a much shorter history than investigative journalism. Like so many other muckrakers, continental practices deeply influenced his thinking about workers' safety. Ironically, British muckrakers, though they distanced themselves from their American counterparts, used the same emotive words in their writings. Robert H. Sherard exemplified how muckraking influence expanded exponentially. Muckrakers' limited impact reflected not merely the nature of transnational exchanges, but many other factors, mostly notably dissimilarities between Britain and the US.
