The JungleHuge Print Press, 1920 - 413 pages 1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page. |
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... knew things before the members of the union knew them . Any one who was considered to be dangerous by them would find that he was not a favorite with his boss ; and Marija had been a great hand for going after the foreign people and ...
... knew things before the members of the union knew them . Any one who was considered to be dangerous by them would find that he was not a favorite with his boss ; and Marija had been a great hand for going after the foreign people and ...
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... knew all about us , he knew we would starve . He knew your boss - he knew Marija's . He would hound us to death , he said- then he said if I would if I - we would all of us be sure of work— always . Then one day he caught hold of me ...
... knew all about us , he knew we would starve . He knew your boss - he knew Marija's . He would hound us to death , he said- then he said if I would if I - we would all of us be sure of work— always . Then one day he caught hold of me ...
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... knew the room where Ona worked , and he knew Connor , the boss of the loading - gang outside . He looked for the man as he sprang into the room . The truckmen were hard at work , loading the freshly packed boxes and barrels upon the ...
... knew the room where Ona worked , and he knew Connor , the boss of the loading - gang outside . He looked for the man as he sprang into the room . The truckmen were hard at work , loading the freshly packed boxes and barrels upon the ...
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