Oddly enough Jurgis finds a job rather quickly from when they arrive in Chicago and starts working at the meat packing plant. ... The meat packing plant is very dark and dangerous. ... The health risks abound inside these plants with the bosses of these plants not worrying at all about his workers. ... The bosses would make the workers work over time without pay to be able to process bad or spoiled meat while the health inspector was gone. ... Sinclair tells how dead rats, droppings, spoiled meat, human body parts, and whatever would fall in would be processed into sausage to be eaten. ...

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