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Labor & the Industrial Exposé
The working class, industrial capitalism, and the muckrakers who put poverty on the page.
1848–1917 · 11 books
Mary Barton
Gaskell
1848
Mary Barton
NovelHard Times
Dickens
1854
Hard Times
NovelLife in the Iron-Mills
Davis
1861
Life in the Iron-Mills
Short storyGerminal
Zola
1885
Germinal
NovelHow the Other Half Lives
Riis
1890
How the Other Half Lives
CommentaryThe Octopus: A Story of California
Norris
1901
The Octopus: A Story of California
NovelThe People of the Abyss
London
1903
The People of the Abyss
MemoirThe History of the Standard Oil Company
Tarbell
1904
The History of the Standard Oil Company
EssaysThe Jungle
Sinclair
1906
The Jungle
NovelThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Tressell
1914
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
NovelKing Coal
Sinclair
1917
King Coal
Novel