This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, it’s Part 3 of our multi-episode examination of the Gilded Age. We look at some of the people and organizations that took on the era's problems, including Henry George, Mary Elizabeth Lease, the Knights of Labor, and the People’s Party. We discuss how they pushed the nation to rethink its commitment to small and decentralized government, arguing that a laissez-faire approach to big business would lead to the disintegration of American democracy.