Jurgis Ruckus Jarvis Research Paper
Half starved immigrants from Lithuania newly arrived in America were told that the land of milk and honey was Chicago.
Ona and Jurgis saw Chicago as a vision of power, a dream of wonder, human energy where employment gave freedom for life, love and joy.
This is a horrendous study of the early animal slaughter and meat packaging industry.
Jurgis Ruckus labored in Brown's Killing Fields and Durham's fertilizer mill. Then with his wife's death, he is blacklisted. Without work, without sustenance, after weeks of trials and tribulations, he becomes a tramp, then a harvester failing he seasonal crops. Being homeless, he wanders over the continent.
They all worked in dangerous, unhealthful, squalid places. They wrestled with hunger and privation,
Ona and Jurgis saw Chicago as a vision of power, a dream of wonder, human energy where employment gave freedom for life, love and joy.
This is a horrendous study of the early animal slaughter and meat packaging industry.
Jurgis Ruckus labored in Brown's Killing Fields and Durham's fertilizer mill. Then with his wife's death, he is blacklisted. Without work, without sustenance, after weeks of trials and tribulations, he becomes a tramp, then a harvester failing he seasonal crops. Being homeless, he wanders over the continent.
They all worked in dangerous, unhealthful, squalid places. They wrestled with hunger and privation,