The Jungle

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workers who used knife lost or had hardly any fingers left especially the tumb. Third workers who worked in chilling rooms had rheumatism. And finally those workers who made tin for the cans had badly cut hands and, chances of getting blood poisoning. This proved that bosses did not care if workers were sick our had chances of dying as long as there work was cheap. Another problem for workers was the political system. In the labor industry it was ran illegally. In Jurgis’s case his boss Mike Scully was in an organization called War Whoop League, who’s main purpose was to go out and buy votes. Seeing that votes could be bought you get the science the government did not care what was going on in these plantations.
There were many examples in this book on how owners tried to crush organized labor. To me the one that stuck out the most was when Marijia loss her job because she was involved in a union. Usually bosses would make examples like this buy firing someone so other people would ...

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