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It's a great book with some very evocative imagery and a good main story about an immigrant family being ground down by capital.
One great part is the head of the Lithuanian imigrant family at the start is a bear of a man, tall and muscly; he easily gets work and condescends to all the other workers who complain they can't get jobs, thinking they just don't want it enough. Over the course of the book he is ground down physically until he resembles all the other wretches, vainly trying to get noticed at the factory gates, before being forced into more and more dangerous work. He is blinded by the promise of America and only opens his eyes much too late to save his dependents.