... Company, Armour and Company, Swift and Company , Brown, and Durham. Every week the managers of the trust got together and compared notes, and there was one scale for all the workers in the yards and one standard of efficiency. Brown and Durham were the two largest meat packing firms in Packingtown ... thousand U.S. soldiers during the Spanish-American war in 1898. Moreover, the poor and uneducated workers were frequently swindled into buying furniture, houses, insurance, and other things they couldn't afford, usually signing contracts they couldn't understand. Purpose of the research: I h...

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