ABSTRACT
Workplace dangers and inequities take many forms. Miguel Delibes' novel Los Santos Innocents [The Holy Innocents] (1981), examines how rich landlords in rural Spain during the 1950s exploited poor families who attempted to send their children to school in hopes of allowing them to escape a life of servitude and humiliation. In his novel The Jungle (1905), Upton Sinclair wrote about the appalling working conditions in the American meatpacking industry at the beginning of the 20th century, and Meredith Tax tells the story of a young Russian immigrant woman who works in the fire-trapped, abusive garment industry on New York City's lower East Side during that same time period in her novel Rivington Street (1982). Craig Lloyd's Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris (2006) and Aravind Adiga's novel The White Tiger (2008) describe how the legacy costs of rigid class structures impact work choices and working conditions.
