Irish were probably the most influential to Chicago. The Irish made up a large amount of Chicago’s public. By 1900 the Irish had six times as many men on the city’s police force as the next largest ethnic group. Many young Irish men worked in packinghouses and in the construction industry as well as owned liquor stores and saloons. Most young Irish women were educated by teaching nuns and in turn became teachers in both public and private Catholic schools. Since many Irish women were better educated
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Scientific Management In order to improve the economic efficiency and the labour productivity‚ Frederick Taylor developed a set of new ideas for managing people and company and redesigned the activities of task procedure that has been named Scientific Management‚ also called Taylorism‚ which is a theory of analysing and synthesizing the workflows. He believed that Scientific Management could create the best way of carry out every set of assignment in the shop‚ based on the limitation of time‚ details
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The Jungle The American dream does not live up to the reputation that movies and fictional books have filled many minds; with the idea that Immigrants and foreigners have many opportunities. The Jungle shows the reality of what immigrants who have to start from scratch‚ have to deal with while attempting to make a living in the US. Many call the USA the land of opportunity however‚ the US does not provide enough opportunity to the immigrants to allow everyone a chance at making a stable
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were off work long enough‚ there was no employment. Sinclair actually under exaggerates- in chapter four he mentions Jurgis working over 10 hours a day‚ whilst the historical references suggest workers worked an eighty hour a week or more in the packinghouses
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America seem dominating. Media-wise‚ muckrakers and other writers exposed corruption in society. Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle had countless effects on America. Roosevelt called for immediate action and organized an investigation into the packinghouses in Chicago and other cities. From this came the production of the Meat Inspection Bill and later the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. This is still an active group today‚ and anyone from the
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Rights and responsibilities in the meatpacking industry In the early twentieth century‚ at the height of the progressive movement‚ "Muckrakers" had uncovered many scandals and wrong doings in America‚ but none as big the scandals of Americas meatpacking industry. Rights and responsibilities were blatantly ignored by the industry in an attempt to turn out as much profit as possible. The meat packers did not care if poor working conditions led to sickness and death. They also did not care if
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The Jungle---just the title alone puts a perfect picture of flourishing foliage into the minds of everyone who has heard its name. One would imagine an adventurous tale behind the cover‚ full of exotic animals‚ exciting journeys‚ and perhaps a singing blue bear befriending an ambitious boy named Mowgli. However‚ the story behind the cover is anything but musical or exciting. To be frank‚ every line of literature will make you contemplate about becoming a vegetarian‚ and here’s why. The Jungle
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IN THE SUMMER of 1964 student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) went to Gadsden County‚ Florida in an effort to convert the old plantation county in the heart of the Florida panhandle into a bastion of CORE’s Southern civil rights crusade.(1) Before the summer ended‚ the students would be bombed‚ beaten‚ and arrested by white authorities and vigilantes. Despite these obstacles‚ CORE activists helped over 3‚500 local residents register to vote and take part in the 1964 presidential
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1 Siono Jessie Siono Golding AP English Language 6 December 2012 Epitome of a Corrupt System: Fast Food’s Effect on the Beef Industry One can go and travel to just about anywhere and not find a single decently populated area where they don’t come across a small‚ brightly colored building with a drive through attached to it. Fast food has affected everything that it comes into contact with‚ whether its society‚ culture‚ countries‚ or businesses. The novel‚ Fast Food Nation‚ by Eric Schlosser
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Sinclair’s The Jungle"). The owners processed and sold diseased‚ injured or dead animals. Upton Sinclair claimed that meat from dead animals killed more U.S. soldiers than the all Spanish soldiers during the Spanish-American War (Sinclair‚ 96). The packinghouse barons were elated when they received animals with tuberculosis as the disease made them “fatten more quickly” (Sinclair‚ 97). Meat was packed under false names as well. “Potted game”‚ “potted grouse”‚ and “potted ham” were made of tripe‚ pork
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