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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... union came to him a second time , he received him in a far different spirit . A wonderful idea it now seemed to ... union cards , and wore their union buttons conspicuously and with pride . For fully a week they were quite blissfully ...
... union came to him a second time , he received him in a far different spirit . A wonderful idea it now seemed to ... union cards , and wore their union buttons conspicuously and with pride . For fully a week they were quite blissfully ...
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... union . The packers , of course , had spies in all the unions , and in addition they made a practice of buying up a certain number of the union officials , as many as they thought they needed . So every week they received reports as to ...
... union . The packers , of course , had spies in all the unions , and in addition they made a practice of buying up a certain number of the union officials , as many as they thought they needed . So every week they received reports as to ...
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... Union about two - thirds were unskilled men . In Chicago these latter were receiving , for the most part , eighteen and a half cents an hour , and the unions wished to make this the general wage for the next year . It was not nearly so ...
... Union about two - thirds were unskilled men . In Chicago these latter were receiving , for the most part , eighteen and a half cents an hour , and the unions wished to make this the general wage for the next year . It was not nearly so ...
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Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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