... working class organization into unions had not yet become as common as it is today. Some of the worst abuses of labor conditions took place in the big cities like New York and Chicago, and it was in Chicago, the cattle and commodity market of the Midwestern United States, that Upton Sinclair found the setting for the book that was to bring him fame: He first won recognition by ... she lived.? (P. 111) Then a terrible blizzard hits the city, and Jurgis injures his ankle at the plant. The company doctor looks at it and tells him to go home; that is the end of his job, since Durham and Com...

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