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Capitalism in Out of This Furnace A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America by Thomas Bell

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for two generations, he championed their efforts to receive better pay and more tolerable working conditions. He understood the immigrants motivation for relocating to America - securing a piece  of the American Dream of prosperity for themselves and their families. These idealistic people were willing to work hard in order to turn these dreams into reality, for American  capitalist ethic promises that through labor comes financial rewards. But more often than not, these immigrants toiled from sunrise till sunset in dangerous and oppressive conditions that resulted instead  in disease, injury and often premature death. Bells masterpiece, Out of This Furnace: A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America, which was first published in 1941, was a fictionalized  account of the authors own autobiographical experiences in the working-class, largely Slovak-American community of Braddock, Pennsylvania, which lived and died by the steel mills that employed its citizens. The  novel, subdivided into separate books that tell the individual stories of the three generations of Kracha/Dobrejcak family members, presents a glimpse of the American Dream that is hardly a pretty  sight. These workers wanted merely to have a roof over their heads, to adequately provide for their families and maybe have enough leftover for a few luxuries. What  they received instead could hardly be construed as luxurious, as one steelworker lamented, "Here work never stops. The furnaces are going day and night, seven days a week, all  the year round. I work, eat, sleep, work, eat, sleep until there are times when I couldnt tell my own name. And every other Sunday the long turn,  twenty-four hours straight in the mill... The long turn was bad but the first night turn coming on its heels was worse. Tempers flared easily, men fought over a