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Today in Labor History June 30, 1906: United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in response to Upton Sinclair's novel, “The Jungle,” which exposed atrocious sanitary conditions in Chicago meat packing industry. Sinclair intended his book not only to bring attention to the public health threat of the squalid working conditions, but also to the racism faced by Chicago’s largely immigrant meat workers, as well as the corruption of both the politicians and union officials. However, the public was most outraged by the prospect of getting food poisoning from the rotten meat.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #meatpacking #publichealth #thejungle #uptonsinclair #union #corruption #foodsafety #chicago #workplacesafety #immigration #fiction #novel #book #author #writer @bookstadon

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Today in Labor History June 30, 1906: United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in response to Upton Sinclair's novel, “The Jungle,” which exposed atrocious sanitary conditions in Chicago meat packing industry. Sinclair intended his book not only to bring attention to the public health threat of the squalid working conditions, but also to the racism faced by Chicago’s largely immigrant meat workers, as well as the corruption of both the politicians and union officials. However, the public was most outraged by the prospect of getting food poisoning from the rotten meat.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #meatpacking #publichealth #thejungle #uptonsinclair #union #corruption #foodsafety #chicago #workplacesafety #immigration #fiction #novel #book #author #writer @bookstadon

Front cover of The Jungle (1906), written by Upton Sinclair and published by Doubleday, Page & Company. Image shows buildings with smokestacks spewing smoke. By Unknown author - This file has been extracted from another file, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90013862


Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dustbowl #GreatDepression #JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #refugees #poverty #fiction #books #author #writer #Oklahoma #texas

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Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dustbowl #GreatDepression #JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #refugees #poverty #fiction #books #author #writer #Oklahoma #texas @bookstadon

The "Black Sunday" dust storm approaches Spearman in northern Texas, April 14, 1935. Looks like a 100-foot tsunami of dust rolling through town. By Monthly Weather Review, Volume 63, April 1935, p. 148. - https://photolib.noaa.gov/Collections/National-Weather-Service/Meteorological-Monsters/Dust/emodule/647/eitem/3025(original upload: http://gimp-savvy.com/cgi-bin/img.cgi?noabU7tT7yk5VKc5780, a no longer working link)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8017282


Can someone explain me what's the deal with #pointy ears in #fiction?
I don't get it.
Of all organs, why ears and why pointy?
Wrong answers only.



#Inktober is here. I'm not one for drawing or painting, but will attempt to #write a paragraph or a few lines each day following the prompts, so it comes together as one story. I won't plan ahead, I'll just see how it goes.

Inktober

#writing #mywriting #fiction #microfiction