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The Jungle Study Guide

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by Upton Sinclair
About 98 pages (29,237 words)
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Chapter 11 Summary

Finally, summer comes again, and with it more business. Jurgis begins to make more money. The bosses keep speeding up the assembly lines as much as they can, and the work is brutal and hot. Marija gets her wages as a beef-trimmer cut in half, and there is really nothing she can do about it. A girl at the place where she works decides to rally the workers, and raises a red flag and marches out in the street to rebel. She loses her job, and nothing happens.

Jurgis learns around this time that the place he lives in, this Packingtown, as it is called, is not made out of just singular businesses. Every one of them is part of something called The Beef Trust. All of the business leaders get together and fix.....

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