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| Notes about this image: | Family in sweatshop. Mother and children make paper roses for twenty cents a gross, thus earning two to three dollars a week. Many families took in lodgers to eke out miserable incomes. Other sweatshop products were garments, cigars and needlework. Jacob Riis photo. |
| Citation: | Jacob A. Riis Collection. Courtesy of The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St., New York, NY 10029. All rights reserved. Our thanks to the Museum. In The Life History of the United States, Time-Life Books, 1974, Vol. 8, p. 75. 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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