"But let no one suppose that this superfluity of employees meant easier work for anyone! On the contrary, the speeding-up seemed to be growing more savage all the time; they were continually inventing new devices to crowd the work on—it was for all the world like the thumb-screw of the mediaeval torture chamber."
Description:Chapter Eleven in Upton Sinclair's original serial for Appeal to Reason, the unexpurgated version of what became "The Jungle."
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