Report: "The Jungle: A Story of Chicago" - Upton Sinclair - Appeal to Reason
Tags: meatpackers, meatpacking, Upton Sinclair
"The pace they set here, it was one that called for every faculty of a man—from the instant the first steer fell till the sounding of the noon whistle, and again from half past twelve till Heaven only knew what hour in the late afternoon or evening, there was never one instant's rest for a man, for his hand or his eye, or his brain."
Description:Chapter Five in Upton Sinclair's serial for Appeal to Reason, which became his book, "The Jungle."
Rights: public domain