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- Gale - Enter Product Login - 1 views

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  • Emily S on 03 Oct 11
     
    This source provides the analyzation of the themes of the novel including her empathy towards the workers. This author looks at the people not the demographics and the statistics of the common low-wage worker in order to appeal to the reader and in order to sympathize with the employees.
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McDonald's two win partial appeal victory - 0 views

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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    About the "McLibel" trial's appeal, in which the British Court of Appeals found that McDonald's does bear responsibility for the poverty of its employees.
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"Rally against McDonald's" Flyer - 2 views

www.sfalliance.org/...TT07flyer.pdf fast food nation grapes of wrath treatment of the worker ethics
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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    A flyer that claims that McDonald's profits off the low-wage, back-breaking work of not only slaughterhouse workers but also impoverished farm workers. The flyer urges people to come to a rally at McDonald's corporate headquarters in support of farm workers.
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The Burger International - 0 views

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/McDonalds.html Fast Food Nation treatment of the worker
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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    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.
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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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"Okie" Migration - 1 views

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  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    "...10 percent of Oklahoma farmers lost their land to foreclosure, and tenant farmers (who comprised more than 60 percent of Oklahoma farmers in the 1930s) had little incentive to endure poor crops and low prices year after year. Mechanization of farming began to consolidate small farms into larger ones. "Just as the Joads had struggled to maintain income sufficient to live on at their farm, so did the rest of the tenant farmers during their time period. The large corporations such as the ones that took over the Joads were forcing many of the small farmers off their land with no regard or care as to what would happen to these people and their families
  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    About the migration of those affected by the Dust Bowl to California and how poorly they were treated in California.
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About The Dust Bowl - 0 views

www.english.illinois.edu/...dustbowl.htm grapes of wrath
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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    A quick historical summary of what happened during the Dust Bowl.
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An Eclectic List of Events in U.S. Labor History - 0 views

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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    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
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Songs of the Okies - Radio Script - For Teachers (Library of Congress) - 0 views

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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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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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Communities Turning Recession and Foreclosures into Positives - 0 views

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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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Spied on by the King - 0 views

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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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Program Profiles: Migrant & Seasonal Farmworke.. | WhyHunger - 1 views

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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    Profiles of different Migrant worker organizations. If these had existed in the time of The Jungle and GOW, maybe things would have been easier for the two families! In the modern day, these groups all work to make sure the basic needs of workers are met, and that they are not being exploited or used.
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Fast-Food Giant Ignores Rights of Workers - 3 views

www.commondreams.org/...0316-10.htm fast food nation
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  • ncreasingly, according to Oxfam, today's globalized economy is characterized by powerful corporations at the top of the product supply chain. "These massive, highly consolidated and vertically-integrated corporations are able to extract value from the supply chain by squeezing costs and offloading responsibility onto those below them--their shippers and suppliers." Suppliers, in turn, try to extract greater value from producers, while producers--with very few variable costs they can cut--"squeeze their labor force," resulting in declining wages and deteriorating work and living conditions
  • roblem, however, is that the company puts the obligation for monitoring and enforcing the code on its suppliers, rather than on itself--yet another example of the corporation at the top of the chain sloughing off responsibilities onto a lower link to avoid additional costs for itself.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Talks about the corporate strategies to thrive and prosper. The CEOS just want money, so they force the suppliers to make more money. The suppliers have to live up to these standards, so they in turn squeeze the workers out, milking unnecessarily large profits where they could have shared with the worker and still done reasonable well.
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  • Travis F on 30 Sep 11
     
    "The vow is admirable, according to Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, who, however, noted in a recent article that Yum! apparently gives higher priority to its responsibility for ensuring the welfare of the animals whose meat it buys than for that of the farm workers who pick the 40 million pounds of tomatoes it buys each year."
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Didn't realize that people already used this source.
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    The businesses behind farms that provide for fast food companies are under scrutiny for not treating their (mostly immigrant) workers with respect and fairness. They are also buying out smaller farms, and removing a whole class of people from the system.
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Working Conditions in American Slaughterhouses: Worse than You Thought - 1 views

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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Working Conditions in American Slaughterhouses 2001
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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article shows a direct relationship of The Jungle to current conditions in slaughterhouses around the nation. The article compares Jurgis Rudkis to a modern Mexican immigrant. Recruiting Mexican immigrants to work in the slaughterhouses has become a common practice in the industry, as the Naturalization Services estimates one quarter of the workers in Nebraska and Iowa are illegal immigrants. The article also explains the relation of injuries on the job to the cleanliness of meat we eat. The fast pace in slaughterhouses leads to contamination of meat, as accidental intestinal spillage of cattle is found in meat. Due to this contamination, fast food is not safe to eat, since the fast food industry buys most of the country's meat.
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    The article speaks to how little the conditions have changed since The Jungle and how the industry still employs the cheapest and least educated work force they can get their hands on. In the early 1900s this the immigrants from places like Poland many like Jurgis and now it is the spanish immigrants most of who are illegal. They don not complain and are constantly at risk of injury for which largely goes unreported.
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    Comparing the conditions of the factories where Jurgis and Eastern European immigrants worked with the new factories in Nebraska where South American/Mexican immigrants now work. It talks about how conditions are still harsh, and it is still hard to make ends meet even after all these years.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 - 0 views

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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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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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BRIA 24 1 b Upton Sinclairs The Jungle: Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry - Constitu... - 0 views

www.crf-usa.org/...the-meat-packing-industry.html the jungle working conditions
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  • The progressives revealed how these companies eliminated competition, set high prices, and treated workers as "wage slaves."
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article reveals this lack of business ethics during this time period through the cooperation of large industries in order to reduce competition. As a result, they are able to drive prices up, which depicts their cruelty towards customers as well as the treatment of workers as "wage slaves" in order to gain more profits.
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article gives historical information on the meat packing industry of the early 1900's. The article tells of the progressive movement of the age which supported reforms. The article tells of the response to "The Jungle" and the innovative aspects of the new processing regulations. The article also gives a short biography about Sinclair's childhood to his death.
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  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    speaks to alot of the conditions Jurgis and his family went though
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    "Unskilled immigrant men did the backbreaking and often dangerous work, laboring in dark and unventilated rooms, hot in summer and unheated in winter." The article shows how cruel the conditions of the factory worker were. And since the work force was unskilled and immigrants, they were often taken advantage of because they knew no better
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    The ethical issues addressed in The Jungle and how they relate to the bills passed after the publication. It talks about how Roosevelt responded to the book and passed many new restrictions on the Chicago meatpacking district, as well as businesses all over the country.
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Blood, sweat and fears - 0 views

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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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History of America's Meat Packing Industry - 0 views

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  • Over the next 40 years, unions such as the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) were able to improve both the pay and working conditions of meat packing employees in the U.S. The UPWA was also known for its progressive ideals and its support of the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
  • Developments such as improved distribution channels allowed meat packing companies to move out of urban, union-dominated centers and relocate to rural areas closer to livestock feedlots.
  • By the late 1990s, the meat packing industry had consolidated such that the top four firms accounted for approximately 50 percent of all U.S. poultry and pork production and 80 percent of all beef production.
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  • Governor Michael Johanns (currently U.S. Secretary of Agriculture) issued the "Nebraska Meatpacking Industry Workers Bill of Rights" in June of 2000. Though only a voluntary set of guidelines, the bill recognized the rights of meat packing employees to organize, work in safe conditions, and to seek help from the state.
  • The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there was an average of 12.6 injuries or illnesses per 100 full-time meat packing plant employees in 2005, a number twice as high as the average for all U.S. manufacturing jobs. Some experts maintain that this number is actually too low as many workers' injuries go unreported due to employee misinformation or intimidation.
  • According to REAP, a union-affiliated group, union membership among meat packing employees has plunged from 80 percent in 1980 to less than 50 percent today.
  • the number of immigrant laborers in meat packing plants—and in the Midwestern areas in which they are primarily located—has increased dramatically. According to the USDA, the percentage of Hispanic meat-processing workers rose from less than 10 percent in 1980 to nearly 30 percent in 2000.
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article by PBS chronicles the evolution of the workers in the meat packing industry. The article tells of the meat packing industry revealed by Sinclair to present conditions. The average hourly wage for meat packing workers has fallen since the 1970's. The article also tells of the poor working conditions "Fast Food Nation" describes and how meat packing is one of the most dangerous jobs in America.
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  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    Detailed timeline of the meat packing indusrty from the 1930s-present; discusses the evolution of unions, steps taken by the government, and internal changes of the industry.
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    Shows how little things have changed
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    Schlosser says in his book how he feels that little has changed since the times of the chicago meat packing trusts, and this pbs article speaks in support of that claim. It gives examples of how conditions in 2005 are "that the working conditions in America's meat packing plants were so bad they violated basic human and worker rights"
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    Meatpacking industry through the years. This article highlights the way that the meatpacking industry and its ethics/conditions have changed (or not) throughout the years. It argues that things are pretty much as bad as the times of The Jungle.
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