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Surely it is moderate to say that the dish-washing for a family of five takes half an hour a day; with ten hours as a day’s work, it takes, therefore, half a million able bodied persons --- mostly women --- to do the dish-washing of the country. And note that this is most filthy and deadening and brutalizing work: that it is a cause of anemia, nervousness, ugliness, and ill-temper: of prostitution, suicide, and insanity; of drunken husbands and degenerate children --- for all of which things the community has naturally to pay. The Jungle


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Science fiction author Robert A. After leaving Columbia he wrote 4 commercially unsuccessful though critically well-received books King Midas (1901) Prince Hagen (1902) The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1903) and a Civil War novel entitled Manassas (1904). During his years with his second wife Mary Craig Sinclair wrote or produced several films.

He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle (1906). It exposed conditions in the U.

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