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This is a panoramic photo depicting the pork industry in Packing Town, Chicago. From left to right, the hogs are pictured moving from their pens to the hog wheel, where they are carried to the hog scraping rail, then boiled and sent through an…

This picture from the Library of Congress shows the conditions workers had to face inside factories and the unsanitary treatment of meat products.

To operate this machine (which bores a large hole in the spade handle) the boy has to throw his whole weight onto the lever which pushes the handle (and himself) up against the unprotected borer. A slip might easily result fatally. Boy earns $1.65 a…