About the McDonald's Corporation's union-busting record, and the few successes organizers and workers' rights advocated have had with the company. Note: this was taken off of a left-leaning website.

About the migration of "Okies" and "Arkies" to California, their efforts to survive in the face of abuse by Californians, and writers' attempts to make public the migrant workers' plight.

About the migration of those affected by the Dust Bowl to California and how poorly they were treated in California.

A quick historical summary of what happened during the Dust Bowl.

This article describes the changes in wages and working conditions for labor since 1900.

A list of labor events in the United States since even before the Jungle's time setting. Linked from http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/laborhis.htm

About the changes in worker safety and rights that have occurred since the Jungle was published in 1906; sort of links the Jungle to Fast Food Nation through its discussion of how today's meatpacking workers relate to meatpacking workers of the early 1900s

An editorial talking about how the migrant farm workers system is broken, and that many migrant farm workers are fleeing places where they can find work because of anti-illegal immigrant laws.

About alleged attempts by Boeing to break their employees' union by building a new plant in South Carolina, a state whose laws are not particularly friendly to organized labor.