Prompt 1
The job described was the fertilizer works of Durham's. From how it's described in the book, this job sounds like it was absolutely disgusting. Not just because of the conditions of the place, but the things that they were producing. "...and in suffocating cellars where the daylight never came you might see men and women and children bending over whirling machines and sawing bits of bone... breathing their lungs full of the fine dust, and doomed to die, every one of them... Here they made the blood into albumen, and made other foul-smelling things into things still more foul-smelling'.Working there would be absolutely awful. What they were producing was absolutely disgusting, and shouldn't have been able to be sold. Not only that, but in the process of making the product, the poor people were inhaling bone dust while working away in dark cellars, while only being paid a small amount of money. I can't imagine how Jurgis and Teta Elzbieta must've felt.
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