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1  The workers in each of them had their own peculiar diseases.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  She had her jacket off, like one of the workers on the killing beds.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
3  If he were of the highly skilled workers, he would probably have enough saved up to tide him over.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
4  The workers were simply the citizens of industry, and the Socialist movement was the expression of their will to survive.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
5  He was introduced by his friend to an Irishman named "Buck" Halloran, who was a political "worker" and on the inside of things.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
6  And every week the managers of it got together and compared notes, and there was one scale for all the workers in the yards and one standard of efficiency.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
7  Presumably sausages were once chopped and stuffed by hand, and if so it would be interesting to know how many workers had been displaced by these inventions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
8  Old Antanas had been a worker ever since he was a child; he had run away from home when he was twelve, because his father beat him for trying to learn to read.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
9  There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
10  And they didn't know how to work, and of course it would not do for the Democratic workers, the noble redskins of the War Whoop League, to support the Republican openly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
11  The workers were dependent upon a job to exist from day to day, and so they bid against each other, and no man could get more than the lowest man would consent to work for.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
12  One of the girls had read somewhere that a red flag was the proper symbol for oppressed workers, and so they mounted one, and paraded all about the yards, yelling with rage.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
13  The managers and superintendents and clerks of Packingtown were all recruited from another class, and never from the workers; they scorned the workers, the very meanest of them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
14  Surely Jurgis must know hundreds of men who would like that sort of fun; and there would be the regular Republican leaders and workers to help him out, and they would deliver a big enough majority on election day.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
15  Little Kotrina was like most children of the poor, prematurely made old; she had to take care of her little brother, who was a cripple, and also of the baby; she had to cook the meals and wash the dishes and clean house, and have supper ready when the workers came home in the evening.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
16  Chicago was the industrial center of the country, and nowhere else were the unions so strong; but their organizations did the workers little good, for the employers were organized, also; and so the strikes generally failed, and as fast as the unions were broken up the men were coming over to the Socialists.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
17  All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
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