Work in a Garment Factory (1902)
At seven o’clock we all sit down to our machines and the boss brings each one the pile of work that he or she is to finish during the day. . . . This pile
Source: Joshua Freeman et al., Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 11: p. 173; originally from The Independent (1902).
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