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Blood, sweat and fears - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...aturesreviews.guardianreview24 jungle treatment poor america
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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    This article shows the aftermath of The Jungle, much like the other PBS timeline article. It also connects things mentioned in The Jungle with a real life race of migrant workers in a Nebraska church. Although many new laws and regulations came out of the novel, most are not upheld to this day.
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Twenty First Century Jungle - 0 views

loyno.edu/...enturyjungle-Summer2009jsq.pdf grapes of wrath poor
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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    Much like in TGOW, today workers are still being forced to uproot and move to other places where work can be found. This article talks about an "underground railroad" of sorts, which helps workers who have suffered accidents/arrests/other unfortunate events and help them obtain the American dream they left their homelands for.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 - 0 views

www.csun.edu/mw2.html the jungle working conditions dangerous
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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    To go along with The Jungle, the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in New York City was yet another wakeup call for poor factory conditions. The fire occurred in an overcrowded factory filled with mostly young women and girls. It was a real life companion to the poor conditions described in The Jungle.
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Spied on by the King - 0 views

socialistworker.org/...spied-on-by-king fast food nation unions
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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    This article shows the extent to which unethical practices are used by the fast food companies. Apparently, Burger King employees had been spying on two labor unions and writing things against them on Youtube. They also had private investigators pose as high school students and try to find out info on the unions.
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Communities Turning Recession and Foreclosures into Positives - 0 views

www.findingdulcinea.com/...eclosures-into-Positives-.html grapes of wrath poor
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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    The poor living conditions in TGOW are not a thing of the past. This article, from 2009, talks about how people are once again being booted from their homes by "the Bank Monster"
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CALIFORNIA: The Okies - 0 views

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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    Talks about why the Okies moved to California. It was a promised land with much fruit for picking and farms to be labored on. It provided the perfect green oasis for people who had been stuck so long on a brown, dusty farm.
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Songs of the Okies - Radio Script - For Teachers (Library of Congress) - 0 views

www.loc.gov/...songokie.html grapes of wrath
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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    Life goes on for the Migrant farmers, and this recration of a radio show shows just that. Even in the time of depression and hardship, the people could still turn to the comfort of music and the radio.
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Commentary - Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed in America - 0 views

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  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    "The math just doesn't work. The average woman coming off of welfare since 1996 earns $7/hour, that's $280/week before taxes, and you can't support children on that, or even one person"
  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    This is actual commentary from the author on the book, and it highlights how the working class cannot live a healthy and safe lifestyle in today's society with the wages that they earn. Ehrenreich truly believes that a change must be made to help the poor working class of our country.
  • Connor P on 03 Oct 11
     
    I partially agree with this as it is extremely difficult for the low-wage workers to live on their salaries but with the help of welfare, medicare, and social security, I feel like it is possible, however change should be made
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"Dark times": Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan discuss a nation of fast food, cheap labor... - 0 views

berkeley.edu/...20_fastfoodnation.shtml Fast Food Nation the jungle america change
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  • "The government isn't going to take any steps unless people make it known that they want things to change," said Schlosser.
  • There are no villains whose removal would solve everything, Schlosser argued. "We wanted to show how very nice people become complicit in things that aren't nice at all. The goal is to unsettle, provoke, make people think and feel."
  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article compares the purposes and effects of Schosser and Sinclair's writing. It also speaks to the work need to be done to make changes (spreading awareness and public demand)
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - IMDb - 0 views

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  • jen furphey on 19 Sep 11
     
    This is a link to the movie of Grapes of Wrath
  • jen furphey on 19 Sep 11
     
    Had trouble again addig comments. Thinking that if you don't have time to read the book why not just watch the movie?
  • jen furphey on 19 Sep 11
     
    thinking of adding link to Spark notes too! Who has time to read these days?
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Cornell News: Meatpacking industry violates human rights - 0 views

www.news.cornell.edu/...meatpacking.abuse.ssl.html the jungle treatment of the worker ethics
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  • "Workers in American beef, pork and poultry slaughtering and processing plants, many of whom are immigrants, perform dangerous, physically demanding and exhausting jobs in bloody, greasy surroundings. The workers not only contend with abuses and an unprecedented volume and pace in sawing and cutting carcasses, but they also experience constant fear and risk, not only for their health and safety but for their jobs if they get hurt or attempt to organize
  • many injured workers, who not uncommonly lose a limb or suffer severe life-threatening injuries, don't get workers' compensation when injured, and government laws, regulations and policies and enforcement fail to protect them.
  • "Meatpacking work has extraordinarily and unnecessarily high rates of injury, musculoskeletal disorders (repetitive stress injuries) and even death. The inherent dangers of meatpacking work are aggravated by ever-increasing line speeds, inadequate training, close-quarters cutting and long hours with few breaks,"
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Talks about the dangers and accidents in meatpacking industries, as well as complaining about how unnecessary these accidents are. A little carefulness and selflessness on the part of the companies would go a long way.
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In These Times 25/11 -- The Fast Food Jungle - 0 views

www.inthesetimes.com/...mason2511.html Fast Food Nation
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  • The public health threat of fast food is even more serious: Many deadly new pathogens have arisen and spread as a direct result of changes in cattle and poultry growing, meatpacking and food preparation spurred by the rise of fast food.
  • Everyone knows that fast food jobs suck. They're greasy, low-paid, short-term, unskilled and without benefits, and among teen-agers, who fill nearly all of them, they're not even cool
  • In addition to its restaurants, McDonald's exerts near-total control over the production of commodities of which it is among the largest buyers: beef, potatoes, pork and poultry.
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  • Fast food workers rarely have benefits of any sort, and typically turn over at several hundred percent each year. And they are never, ever unionized. In addition to being low-paid and transient, fast food work is dangerous: the rate of injury in fast food jobs is among the highest of any job category.
  • But if that weren't bad enough, fast food workers are now more likely to be murdered on the job (four to five per month) than are police,
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Another excellent site commentating on Fast Food Nation. Honestly, I fail to see the point of searching for most of these commentaries. Nearly none of these sites about the novels say anything explicitly new or interesting which the novels did not. They're just encapsulations of the same thing. After the class puts this together, we will have hundreds of summaries of the same dumb novels.
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Meatpacking Industry - The Jungle, Congress of Industrial Organizations, United Packing... - 0 views

www.jrank.org/...Meatpacking-Industry.html jungle workers america food Fast Food Nation
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  • Competition and low profit margins generate a corporate motive for maximum productivity, and deregulation has shredded health and safety standards.
  • A study by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS; now the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) in 1997 found that one-fourth of the workers in seven meatpacking plants in Iowa and Nebraska had “questionable” documents. The INS's Operation Vanguard in 1999 rounded up immigrants in slaughterhouses, bringing charges that employers and the government colluded to prevent workers from organizing unions.
  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    Connects The Jungle, and the Eastern European immigrant labor force used by the Chicago meatpacking industry to the present day use of Mexican immigrant labor in today's industries. Provides concrete details on the legality of the workforce used by modern corporations, as well as the questionable conditions in which they work. Bridges The Jungle and FFN without actually mentioning FFN
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USATODAY.com - Treatment of meatpacking workers in question - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...2001-07-25-meat.htm Fast Food Nation
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  • Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington show the injury rate in meatpacking per 100 full-time workers in 1999 was 26.7%
  • Injured workers who do sign the waiver, Glasheen said, likely have no idea that the company payoff may be only "tens of thousands" (of dollars) for a serious injury, one that "could be worth millions of dollars on a negligence claim."
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Although the site doesn't entirely agree with the views in FFN, it still offers some good statistics to back it up; discussing the injuries and hardships of the workers.
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Grapes of wrath exploitation quotes - 0 views

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  • Emily S on 29 Sep 11
     
    This article depicts the exploitation if the worker in their time of need. Greedy companies such as the car shop takes advantage of the migrants' need for a vehichle and use their monopoly to sell the cars at an unfair price. This is another example of the corrupt power that the upper class has over the migrants.
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Annals of American History - 0 views

america.eb.com/...article grapes of wrath america Dust bowl
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  • Emily S on 29 Sep 11
     
    · 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present. · Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, and more that bring history to life. · Noted contributors that include Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allan Poe. · Photos and multimedia that engage students.
  • Emily S on 29 Sep 11
     
    This article views the dust bowl from an unbiased point of view. The text says that the federal government was quite involved with the aid of those suffering in the dust bowl for not the sake of the people, but for the sake of the economic dependency of the united states
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The New Atlantis » The Jungle at 100 - 0 views

www.thenewatlantis.com/...the-jungle-at-100 jungle law Roosevelt
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  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    Discusses the legal effects The Jungle had, and the rapid action of the government to investigate and try to fix the issues present in the novel. Good source for legal evolution of business practices
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Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=RELEVANCE&inPS=true&prodId=GPS&userGroupName=morr36556&tabID=T001&searchId=R3&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=2&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2591900018&&docId=GALE|CX2591900018&docType=GALE&role= the jungle #1 poor treatment of workers
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  • One reason was that a great number of unskilled laborers came to America at the time, so that employers could offer low wages for miserable jobs and always find someone willing to do the work.
  • Connor P on 29 Sep 11
     
    The underlined quote shows that the unskilled labor source fueled the fire of the early 20th century labor and they were at the demands of the bosses. They are symbolic to breeding animals as they are used for production and when they cannot, they are kicked to the curb. And the flow is in constant motions which allows the bosses to keep making the conditions worse and worse
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Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost: America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It - 0 views

web.ebscohost.com/...detail Fast Food Nation ethics america
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  • Emily S on 29 Sep 11
     
    He's raised on grass and hay and lives happily on a pasture by the ocean. His meat is free of antibiotics, but can we afford to eat it? We can't afford not to. Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another.
  • Emily S on 29 Sep 11
     
    This passage describes how the ethics and sanitation of the meat-packing industry has not changed from the time of the jungle. Although some government reform and social reform has come about, it is still despicable.
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Farm Labor in the 1930s - 0 views

migration.ucdavis.edu/...more.php grapes of wrath treatment of the worker
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  • California newspapers alternated between ignoring the strike or printing the growers' side until several strikers were killed by growers at a Pixley, California rally. The reporters and photographers who rushed to cover the strike generally reported that it was growers, not strikers, who were breaking labor and other laws.
  • In Fall 1931, migrants were arriving in the state at the rate of 1,200 to 1,500 a day, an annual rate of almost 500,000 (p109).
  • State and local actions aimed to keep needy migrants out of the state. The vagrancy laws of 1933 and 1937, under which many migrants were arrested and sometimes "lent" to farmers to work off their fines, were finally repealed in 1941 as unconstitutional (Edwards vs California). Similarly, the Los Angeles police operated 16 checkpoints on the California-Arizona border to turn back migrants "with no visible means of support" in February-March 1936 until the checkpoints were ruled unconstitutional. (Loftis, p126).
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  • The Grapes of Wrath was published in April 1940, and President Roosevelt was quoted as reacting after reading it that "something must be done and done soon" to help California farm workers. (p174) Many schools and libraries banned The Grapes of Wrath, and Oklahoma Congressman Lyle Boren denounced it as "a lie, a black, infernal creation of a twisted, distorted mind." Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962.
  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    States the effects of the Grapes of Wrath and gives concrete information on the masses of migrant workers and their treatment in 1930s America. Shows legal actions taken as well as position of the press during the time period
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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "The arrival of Okies and Arkies set the stage for physical and ideological conflicts over how to deal with seasonal farm labor and produced literature that resonates decades later, as students read and watch "The Grapes of Wrath" and farmers and advocates continue to argue over how to obtain and treat seasonal farm workers"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source takes an in debth look at the farmers and their treatment in the 1930's as well as looking forward to present day problems that are still going on.
  • Travis F on 30 Sep 11
     
    "a four-week strike in October 1933 that involved 12,000 to 18,000 workers. Workers refused to pick the 1933 crop for the $0.60 per hundred pounds offered by growers" This quote describes the workers banding together in a strike attempting to do away with the poor treatment they are receiving from the large farm owners.
  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    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.
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