Tag: labor

Upton Sinclair · 1906

Jurgis Rudkus follows work to Chicago packinghouses, watches his family wear down from low pay and foul food, and ends by joining the socialists.

2,496-word summary · 11 min read

Cristina Rivera Garza · 2020

A Pulitzer winner traces her cotton-worker grandparents and a 1934 border strike through archives, memory, and damaged land.

2,213-word summary · 10 min read

Kate Moore · 2016

Young painters trusted glowing paint, suffered poisoning, then fought companies for safety.

2,044-word summary · 9 min read