The JungleNew American Library, 1980 - 350 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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... stockyards . Grandmother Majauszkiene had come to Ameri- ca with her son at a time when so far as she knew there was only one other Lithuanian family in the district ; the workers had all been Germans then - skilled cattle - butchers ...
... stockyards . Grandmother Majauszkiene had come to Ameri- ca with her son at a time when so far as she knew there was only one other Lithuanian family in the district ; the workers had all been Germans then - skilled cattle - butchers ...
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... stockyards this was only in national and state elections , for in local elections the Democratic party always carried everything . The ruler of the district was therefore the Democratic boss , a little Irishman named Mike Scully ...
... stockyards this was only in national and state elections , for in local elections the Democratic party always carried everything . The ruler of the district was therefore the Democratic boss , a little Irishman named Mike Scully ...
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... stockyards and slums of Chicago . A succession of races the Germans , the Irish , the Bohemians , the Poles , the ... stockyards district . There , in Packingtown ( as Sinclair called the stockyards ) , the immigrants encountered ...
... stockyards and slums of Chicago . A succession of races the Germans , the Irish , the Bohemians , the Poles , the ... stockyards district . There , in Packingtown ( as Sinclair called the stockyards ) , the immigrants encountered ...
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Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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