This novel detailed the atrocities an immigrant family faced working in a Chicago meatpacking plant. Immigrants were suffering from long hours, low pay, child labor and horrific work conditions, this book made society realize the eminent problem sweatshops evoked upon humanity. ... This particular business had five hundred employees consisting mainly of women, most of them immigrants from Europe.( Malone & Ramey p. 162) That afternoon when the fire started the workers frantically began to evacuate, but the elevator could only hold ten people and the exit doors were locked. ... When these pe...

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