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1981, c1906., Bantam Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Poverty, disease, and despair depicted in this story of the barbarous working conditions in the slaughter houses of Chicago in 1900.
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1971., R. Bentley Call No: Literature FIC SINCLAIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jurgis Rudkus, a Slav immigrant lured by appealing advertisements, comes to Chicago to make money in the stockyards, but the reality is different from what he expects.
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1981., Bantam Books Call No: 813 .52 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Bantam classicSummary Note: A young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of opportunity, wealth and freedom. And we discover the astonsihing truth about "Packingtown" the busy floursihing filthy Chicago stockyards where New World visions perish in a jungle of human suffering.
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[2019]., Ten Speed Press Call No: GN Jungle Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Explores the difficult conditions faced by immigrants in Chicago during the early 1900s though a graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel. Focused on the deplorable working conditions of the meat industry of the era and the hopeless, poverty the workers experienced.