The labor force was exploited to the employers' benefits. The workers didn't have any set wages. "A very few days of practical experience in this land of high wages had been sufficient to make clear to them the cruel fact that it was also a land of high prices, and that in it the poor man was almost as poor as in any other corner of the earth; and so there vanished in a night all the wonderful dreams of wealth that had been

and back, the cars were so crowded that the conductors could not collect all the fares? And besides, the companies were thieves, people said--had stolen all their franchises with the help of scoundrelly politicians!" Also prostitution was a big problem also. Young girls who are just trying to survive or women who have to families need means to support them were forced into prostitution as an easy way of getting money. "Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man's exploitation of the sex pleasure." "If she had no money, she was a proletarian, and sold herself for an existence."

These were some of the things that went during that time. It was a hard time for the immigrants but it turned out that these immigrants were the ones that made this great country America. Without them we wouldn't be at where at without them.

haunting Jurgis. What had

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