The Jungle — When Hard Work Doesn't Create Security
What happens when working harder makes you more useful to a system without making you more secure inside it?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Jungle by Upton Sinclair as our lens, this investigation follows Jurgis Rudkus and his family into Chicago's Packingtown, where their belief in hard work and opportunity repeatedly collides with forces they have little power to control.
Sinclair depicts a system in which workers are replaceable, debt restricts their ability to leave, workplace dangers are borne largely by laborers and their…
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