“There is one kind of prison where a person is behind bars, and everything that he desires is on the outside;
and there is another kind of prison where the things are behind bars, and the person is on the outside. ”
~Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
From the 1880’s to the mid 1940’s, untold numbers of men and women risked life and limb to bring home a paycheck. It wasn’t until the reforms of the 1950’s that working men and women found protection from occupational hazards.
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