In December 1891 Wyckoff, a young scholar living as a common labourer, arrives in Chicago and learns what it is to hunt for work and fail amid hunger and cold. He survives on odd jobs, finds steady work as a hand-truckman in a factory, listens to revolutionaries, builds roads on the World’s Fair grounds and works his way west to Denver.
A landmark of undercover social reporting, the sequel to The Workers: The East. Download the free EPUB.