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Notes about this image:"A sweatshop tenement flat on Ludlow Street, New York. The garment makers - men, women and children - worked under miserable conditions on a subcontracting system." c. 1889.
Citation:Jacob A. Riis photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-USZ62-23305. In Milton Meltzer, Bread and Roses - the Struggle of American Labor 1865-1915, Alfred A. Knopf, 1967, p. 46. 11.2.1
Standard:11.2-1.00 the effect of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the treatment of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

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