According to progressives, which group should be held responsible for employee injuries that occur on the job?

They cared more about making a profit than charging fair prices.

In this excerpt, the author states that landowners and pig farmers would often withhold their produce until prices went up. These prices went up because the demand increased. Sometimes, demand would be extremely high, like when crops failed and villages faced food shortages. This was a good opportunity for them to charge extremely high prices. The fact that landowners and pig farmers were so willing to increase their prices during food shortages show that their main aim was to make a profit.