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Meatpacking Industry


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At the start of the twentieth century, most U.S. meatpacking workers came from Eastern Europe, like the Lithuanians in Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906). By World War II companies ...

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Meat Industry
in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World Length: 1439 words
Meatpacking and Meat Processing Industry.
in The Oxford Companion to United States History Length: 482 words
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in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History Length: 1833 words
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in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States Length: 1131 words

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