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Meat Packing Packing Industry
1,033 words... ch men labored on slippery floors processing the meat. Open vats laid upon the level of the floor, the peculiar trouble of these workers was they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting. Sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Andersons Pure Leaf Lard (Cook 112)! To insure that the meatpacking plants would stay open the owners would do just about anything. An...
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Men And Women Women And Children
1,396 wordsThere are a million people, men and women and children, who share the curse of the wage-slave; who toil every hour they can stand and see, for just enough to keep them alive; who are condemned till the end of their days to monotony and weariness, to hunger and misery, to heat and cold, dirt and disease, to ignorance and drunkenness and vice! And then turn them over to me, and gaze upon the other side of the picture. There are a thousand-ten thousand, maybe-who are master of these slaves, who own...
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Food And Drug Medicinal Purposes
863 wordsDrugs are anything chemically based which alter your perceptions in life and give you a high that sometimes you would like to have forever. Sometimes people dont need this high in their life all the time but for others they always want that ultimate feeling. The feeling of no worries, pain, or sorrow. Some people take drugs for the fun of it, while others seriously have a problem and are addicted to the drugs. For some it is easy to just take drugs such as LSD, snort a line of coke, or smoke a j...
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Food And Drug Meat Packing
712 wordsIt's a Jungle Out There Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) gives an in depth look at the lives of the immigrant workers here in America. In fact the look was so in depth that the Pure Food and Drug Act was created as a result. Many people tend to focus purely on the unsanitary conditions instead of the hardships faced by the workers. Actually I think that Sinclair doesn't want the focus on the meatpacking, but on overcoming obstacles, especially through Socialism. Sinclair was himself very...
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Food And Drug Upton Sinclair
485 wordsIn the early 1900 +s many new changes were made in an effort to improve the business practices and social problems of the time. One of the many changes was the formation of the food and drug administration. It issued the first pure food and drug laws, which are federal regulations created to protect the consumer from contaminated or otherwise harmful food, drugs, and cosmetics. These laws were needed because the methods of preparing and shipping foods at the time were dangerous to everyones heal...
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Food And Drug Meat Packing
543 wordsIn our American history we have come across many debating issues. Many issues have been dealt with on small scales but other issues have become very serious. A lot of serious issues were dealt with during the time period of industrialization. With many debates such as monopolies and trustbuster's of big corporations, working conditions and techniques often became unrecognized in the politically debating time period. Upton Beall Sinclair (1878 - 1968), was an American writer and social and econom...
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