The JungleUpton Sinclair, 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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Page 36
... packers might own the land , but he claimed the land- scape , and there was no one to say nay to this . They passed down the busy street that led to the yards . It was still early morning , and everything was at its high tide of ...
... packers might own the land , but he claimed the land- scape , and there was no one to say nay to this . They passed down the busy street that led to the yards . It was still early morning , and everything was at its high tide of ...
Page 39
... packers wanted them to . They climbed a long series of stairways outside of the building , to the top of its five or six stories . Here were the chute , with its river of hogs , all patiently toiling upward ; there was a place for them ...
... packers wanted them to . They climbed a long series of stairways outside of the building , to the top of its five or six stories . Here were the chute , with its river of hogs , all patiently toiling upward ; there was a place for them ...
Page 51
... packers did not even keep the men who had grown old in their own service -to say nothing of taking on new ones . And not only was it the rule here , it was the rule everywhere in America , so far as he knew . To satisfy Jurgis he had ...
... packers did not even keep the men who had grown old in their own service -to say nothing of taking on new ones . And not only was it the rule here , it was the rule everywhere in America , so far as he knew . To satisfy Jurgis he had ...
Page 72
... packers , and was quite beside herself and outrageous with triumph over the sums of money she was making as a painter of cans . But one day she walked home with a pale - faced little woman who worked opposite to her , Jadvyga Marcinkus ...
... packers , and was quite beside herself and outrageous with triumph over the sums of money she was making as a painter of cans . But one day she walked home with a pale - faced little woman who worked opposite to her , Jadvyga Marcinkus ...
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... packers to keep them till they were fit for food . But for the saving of time and fodder , it was thew that cows of that sort came along with the others , € and whoever noticed it would tell the boss , and THE JUNGLE 73.
... packers to keep them till they were fit for food . But for the saving of time and fodder , it was thew that cows of that sort came along with the others , € and whoever noticed it would tell the boss , and THE JUNGLE 73.
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