Other People's Work
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Reporters encounter or inhabit the lives of very hard-laboring others.
Reporters
- Edward Clark Marsh
- Bessie (Mrs. John) van Vorst
- Marie van Vorst
- Cornelia Stratton Parker
- William Hard
- Rheta Childe Dorr
- Wlliam Hard
- Nell Nelson
- Tony Horwitz
- Upton Sinclair
- Editorial
- Helen Campbell
- W. H. Brommage
- Arthur Inkersly
- A Medical Student
- George Ernest Morrison
- Unsigned
- J. D. Melvin
- George Getschow
- Eva Gay
- Gloria Steinem
- Lawrence Otis Graham
- Marvel Cooke
- Merle Linda Wolin
- Q.K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.
- Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.
- Dale Wright
- Neil Henry
- Chester Goolrick
- Paul Lieberman
- (Lee May)
- Charles Goolrick
- Charlene Smith-Williams
- Article Unsigned
- Lillian Pettengill
- Jan Wong
- Lauren W. Gilfillan
- Charlie LeDuff
- Nellie Bly
- Timothy K. Smith
- Lucy Hosmer
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Ted Conover
- Jane H. Lii
- Helen Zia
- Mike Goodman
- William Endicott
- Ella Baker
- Dinah Lee
- Rose Brady
- Ed Bradley
- Dan Rather
- Harry Wu
- Fabrizio Gatti
- Dick J. Reavis
- Mark Daly
- Nicola Byrne
- Les Payne
- Charlie Osborne
- Jon Russell
- Nikki Murfit
- James Greenwood
- Mac McClelland
- Ida Ince
Media History
The reporting was intended for these media types: Magazine, Newspaper, Book, Television
Articles, Books, Video/Film
Q.K. Philander Doesticks' (aka Mortimer Thomson's) "The Witches of New York"
1857I-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune
January 22, 1857
The first article in the series "Witches of New-York" by humorist Mortimer Thomson (often wrote under the pseudonym ...II-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Madame Widger - No. 5 First Avenue, near Houston street
January 23, 1857
The second article in the series "Witches of New-York" by humorist Mortimer Thomson (often wrote under the pseudonym ...III-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Madame Leander Lent
January 24, 1857
The third installment of "The Witches of New-York" series by the Tribune's humorist Mortimer Thomson (a.k.a. Doesticks)IV-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Madame Bruce, the "Mysterious Vailed Lady"
January 27, 1857
Fourth article in the Tribune's "The Witches of New-York" series written by acclaimed humorist Mortimer Thomson ...V-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson, New York Tribune | Madame Prewster No. 343 Bowery, between Fourth and Fifth streets
January 28, 1857
The fifth installment of the Tribune's "Witches of New-York" series by humorist Mortimer Thomson (a.k.a. Doesticks), ...VI-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | The Gipsy Girl No. 207 Third Avenue, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth-sts
January 31, 1857
The sixth article in the Tribune's "The Witches of New-York" series, written by acclaimed humorist Mortimer Thomson ...VII-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Mrs. Seymour, Clairvoyant No.110 Spring street, near Mercer
February 6, 1857
Seventh article in the Tribune's funny "Witches of New-York" series by renowned humorist Mortimer Thomson (a.k.a. ...VIII-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Madame Morrow. No.76 Broome street, near Columbia
February 13, 1857
The eighth article in The New York Tribune's series about astrologers and fortunetellers titled "The Witches of ...IX-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | A Wizard – Dr. Wilson. No.172 Delancey street
February 14, 1857
The ninth article in The New York Tribune's series about astrologers and fortunetellers titled "The Witches of ...X-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Madame Clifton. No.185 Orchard street, Near Stanton
February 24, 1857
The tenth article in The New York Tribune's series about astrologers and fortunetellers titled "The Witches of ...XI-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Mrs. Hayes Clairvoyant. No.176 Grand street
February 25, 1857
The eleventh article in The New York Tribune's series about astrologers and fortunetellers titled "The Witches of ...XII-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Madame Carzo, the Brazilian Astrologist. No.151 Bowery
April 2, 1857
The twelfth article in The New York Tribune's series about astrologers and fortunetellers titled "The Witches of ...XIII-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Madame Harris. No.80 West Nineteenth street, near Sixth avenue
April 4, 1857
The thirteenth article in The New York Tribune's series about astrologers and fortunetellers titled "The Witches of ...XIV-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Ms. Fleury. No.263 Broome street
April 25, 1857
The fourteenth article in The New York Tribune's series about astrologers and fortunetellers titled "The Witches of ...XV-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Mrs. Grommer. No.34 N. Second street, Williamsburgh
May 9, 1857
The fifteenth article in The New York Tribune's series about astrologers and fortunetellers titled "The Witches of ...XVI-"The Witches of New-York" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune | Mrs. Pugh. No.102 South First street, Williamsburgh
May 20, 1857
The sixteenth and final article in The New York Tribune's series about astrologers and fortunetellers titled "The ..."A Night in a Workhouse" - James Greenwood - Pall Mall Gazette | How the Poor Are Treated in Lambeth! The Casual Paper! "Old Daddy," The Nurse; The Bath! The Conversation of the Casuals! The Striped Shirt! The Swearing Club ! ! "Skiley" and "Toke" by Act of Parliament" ! The Adventures of a Young Thief! &c, &c, &c
January 12, 1866
Greenwood's account in the Pall Mall Gazettte was so successful the work was later reprinted in pamphlet form. It ...I-"The Contributor: A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" - George Morrison - The Leader
October 21, 1882
The first installment in George Morrison's undercover series "A Cruise in a Queensland" about the recruitment of ...II-"The Contributor: A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" - George Morrison - The Leader
October 28, 1882
The second installment in George Morrison's undercover series "A Cruise in a Queensland" about the recruitment of ...III-"The Contributor: A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" - George Morrison - The Leader
November 4, 1882
The third installment in George Morrison's undercover series "A Cruise in a Queensland" about the recruitment of ...IV-"The Contributor: A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" - George Morrison - The Leader
November 11, 1882
The fourth installment in George Morrison's undercover series "A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" about the ...V-"The Contributor: A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" - George Morrison - The Leader
November 18, 1882
The fifth installment in George Morrison's undercover series "A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" about the recruitment ...VI-"The Contributor: A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" - George Morrison - The Leader
November 25, 1882
The sixth installment in George Morrison's undercover series "A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" about the recruitment ...VII-"The Contributor: A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" - George Morrison - The Leader
December 2, 1882
The seventh and second-to-last installment in George Morrison's undercover series "A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" ...VIII-"The Contributor: A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" - George Morrison - The Leader
December 9, 1882
The eighth and final installment in George Morrison's undercover series "A Cruise in a Queensland Slaver" about the ..."The Queensland Slave Trade" - George Morrison - The Age | To the Editor of The Age
May 9, 1883
A letter from George Morrison to the editor of The Age decrying the labor recruiting practices he witnessed when on ...Editorial: "Melbourne, Friday, 18th May, 1883" - Unsigned - The Age
May 18, 1883
An editorial by The Age questioning why clergy have been reluctant to openly denounce the labor trafficking in the ..."Exploration of New Guinea" - George Morrison - The Age | No. VIII
February 9, 1884
An example of Morrison's report of his exploration of New Guinea.I-"Prisoners of Poverty: Women wage-workers, their trades and their lives" - Helen Campbell - New York Tribune | "Worker and Trade"
October 24, 1886
This first installment of Campbell's "Prisoners of Poverty" series for the New York Tribune provides an overview of ...II-"Prisoners of Poverty: Women wage-workers, their trades and their lives" - Helen Campbell - New York Tribune | "The Case of Rose Haggerty"
October 31, 1886
In her second "Prisoners of Poverty' installment, Campbell tells the story of Rose, a fourteen-year-old girl who ...III-"Prisoners of Poverty: Women wage-workers, their trades and their lives" - Helen Campbell - New York Tribune | "Some Methods of a Prosperous Firm"
November 7, 1886
In this installment of her "Prisoners of Poverty" series, Helen Campbell explores the double-edged sword of the ...IV-"Prisoners of Poverty: Women wage-workers, their trades and their lives" - Helen Campbell - New York Tribune | "The Bargain Counter"
November 14, 1886
This fourth installment of "Prisoners of Poverty" focuses on women who run garment manufacturing sweatshops. ...V-"Prisoners of Poverty: Women wage-workers, their trades and their lives" - Helen Campbell - New York Tribune | "A Fashionable Dressmaker"
November 21, 1886
An account of the shoddy and deceptive practices employed by a popular Union-Square-area dressmaker. Campbell ...Helen Campbell's "Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives"
1887"Trying to Be a Servant" - Nellie Bly - New York World | Nellie Bly's Strange Experiences at Two Employment Agencies
October 30, 1887
Bly investigates the employment agencies that place domestic servants."The Girls Who Make Boxes" - Nellie Bly - New York World | Nellie Bly Tells How It Feels to Be a White Slave; She Tries Her Hand at Making Paper Boxes; Difficulty in Getting a Job; Most Work Two Weeks for Nothing; After One Learns the Trade It Is Hard to Earn a Living; A Fair Picture of the Work
November 27, 1887"Learning Ballet Dancing" - Nellie Bly - New York World | Nellie Bly in Short Gauze Skirts Kicks at a Mark
December 18, 1887"Learning Ballet Dancing" - Nellie Bly - New York World | Nellie Bly in Short Gauze Skirts Kicks at a Mark
December 18, 1887"Nellie Bly on the Stage" - Nellie Bly - New York World | She Wears a Scant Costume; Marches with the Amazons
March 4, 1888
Bly writes about her turn on the stage as a member of the dancing chorus line for "The Amazon March.""Nellie Bly on the Stage" - Nellie Bly - New York World | She Wears a Scant Costume; Marches with the Amazons
March 4, 1888
Bly writes about her turn on the stage as a member of the dancing chorus line for "The Amazon March.""Nellie Bly as a Mesmerist" - Nellie Bly - New York World | The Strange and Awful Experience of a Certain Mr. Gray
March 25, 1888I-"The Toiling Women" - Eva Gay (aka Eva McDonald aka Eva Valesh) - St. Paul Globe | Eva Gay's Trip Through Bag and Mattress Factories of Minneapolis; Sewing Mid Clouds of Dust--Hardships Hand in Hand With Small Wages; Employers Who Provide Necessary Conveniences and Others Who Do Not; Girls Compelled to "Stand for Their Health" -- Mattress Works Employes
April 1, 1888
Gay wrote a series of articles on posing as a factory worker to assess conditions in Minnesota with a pledge to ...II-"Song of the Shirt" - Eva Gay (aka Eva McDonald aka Eva Valesh) - St. Paul Globe | Eva Gay's Visit to the Girl Workers in Minneapolis Shirt Factories; Some of the Dark, Dank and Disagreeable Shops of the Shirt Workers; Girls Must Furnish Their Own Machines, as Well as the Sewing Materials; Starvation Wages for Hard Work--Girls Terrorized by Their Taskmasters.
April 8, 1888
Gay wrote a series of articles on posing as a factory worker to assess conditions in Minnesota with a pledge to ...III-"Working in the Wet" - Eva Gay - St. Paul Globe | Eva Gay's Glance at the Girls Who Work in the Laundries; Some of the Work is Terrible and the Pay is Generally Low; Girls Acknowledge the Work is Surely Breaking Their Health; More of the Crusade, with Some of the Natural Consequences
April 15, 1888IV-"Eva Gay's Travels" - Eva Gay - St. Paul Gobe | Among the Girls Who Toil in the Steam Laundries of Minneapolis; Beal's the Place Where Poor Girls Work and Get No Pay for It; One Laundry Where the Girl Help is Treated as It Should Be; Why Girls Go Astray--Character No Object--Observations on Laundry Life
April 22, 1888I-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily TImes | A Lady Reporter's Experience in the Shops with the Sewing Serfs. Making Tidies at Sixty Cents a Dozen and Paying Three Dollars for the Privilege
July 30, 1888
The first in Nell Nelson's series based on time undercover in factories employing girls and women in Chicago. The ...II-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | Further Details of the Factory Investgation Conducted by "The Times'" Lady Reporter. A Cloak Concern Where Nothing But Fear of the Law Seems to Prevent The Use of the Lash
July 31, 1888
The second article in Nell Nelson (a pseudonym)'s undercover series on the working conditions of women and girls in ...III-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | Startling Experiences of "The Times'" Lady Reporter in the Factory of Julius Stein & Co. Left in a Foul and Filthy Corner of the Workroom Until Outraged Nature Succumbs
August 1, 1888
The third article in Nell Nelson's series on women and girls who work in Chicago's factories. Nelson went ...IV-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | "The Times'" Lady Reporter, in the Guise of a Factory Bondwoman, is insulted by a Scoundrel
August 2, 1888
The fourth article in the undercover series exposing working conditions in Chicago's factories for women and girls. ...V-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | While Among Chicago's Weak Serfs The Times Lady Reporter Finds Mr. Goss' "Good Jew"
August 3, 1888
The fifth installment of Nell Nelson's undercover reports from Chicago's factories, documenting the working ...VI-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | "The Times'" Lady Reporter Spends a Day in Goldsmith's Tailor Shop at 258 Rumsey Street
August 4, 1888
part of Nell Nelson's undercover series on working conditions for women in Chicago's factories. Nelson worked ...VII-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | Nell Nelson Puts in a Whole Day with Pardridge & Co. on State Street
August 5, 1888
Nell Nelson works as a dry-goods clerk as part of her undercover look into the conditions for female laborers in ...VIII-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | A Second Investigation "By Request" of Some of the Places Already Visited
August 6, 1888
Nell Nelson's undercover series examining women's working conditions in Chicago factories continues with a ...IX-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | The "Times" Lady Reporter Finds Some Factorymen who treat their Employees Decently. At the Dearborn Feather Duster Company's Place the Conditions Could Be Improved.
August 7, 1888
Nell Nelson's undercover series exposing working conditions for women in Chicago's factories continues. This ...X-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | "Nell Nelson" investigates the Boston Store and Is Shocked at What She Finds. A Basement that on a Hot Day is So Stifling it Reminds One of the "Black Hole of Calcutta."
August 8, 1888
The undercover series continues its expose of working conditions for women in Chicago's factories. Nell Nelson ...XI-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | "Nell Nelson" spends a Day Among the Serfs and Bondwomen in the Shops of "Little Hell." For Four Hours of Unceasing Toil in a Dirty, Crowded Tailor's Room She Is Paid Six Cents.
August 9, 1888
"Nell Nelson" finds work in a slop shop for a day, making ready-made clothes for a measly wage, part of her ...XII-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | Places Where Virtue Counts for Nothing and Is Not Tolerated by the Employer. Body and Soul Must Be Given Up To The Scoundrels Or The Employee Loses Her Situation.
August 10, 1888
Nelson's undercover stories about working conditions for women in Chicago's factories continue. This article ...XIII-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | "The Times" Reporter Wanders Into The Loud-Smelling Tailor-Shops on Twelfth Street. An Insight Into the Peculair Methods by Which Wholesale Clothing Dealers Grow Rich.
August 11, 1888
A (male) reporter is taken through the cloak factories by an insider volunteer as Nell Nelson's undercover series on ...XIV-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | Nell Nelson Continues To Expose the Slave-Grinding Hell-Holes of Chicago
August 12, 1888
Part of the Times's undercover series on working conditions for women in Chicago's factories, based on undercover ...XV-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | A "Times" reporter Accompanies a Health Officer on Another Visit to The Slave-Pens
August 13, 1888
A Times reporter makes a second trip with the health department to factories in Chicago, where working conditions ...XVI-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | A Young Widow Attempted to Support Herself and Child by Making Overalls
August 14, 1888
Nell Nelson gives the account of court room plea for mercy by a woman working in Chicago's garment industry. The ...XVII-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | Their Condition in the Shoe Shops as Described by "The Times" Lady Reporter. Little Heroines Who Work For Three Meals, a Roof at Night, and Their Carfare.
August 15, 1888
"Nell Nelson" goes to a shoe factory and examines the working conditions of young girls working to support their ...XVIII-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson -Chicago Daily Times | Take a Trip with a "Times" Reporter Through a Mattress and Pillow Manufactory
August 16, 1888
Nell Nelson reports on the working conditions for women in a mattress factory in Chicago as part of her undercover ...XIX-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | "Nell Nelson" Spends an Hour n the Factory of Henry W. King & Co, on Union Street, And Reads The Old Story of Want and Misery, Ill Health and Privation - in the Faces of The Toilers
August 17, 1888
Nelson continues her undercover expose of women's working conditions in Chicago factories.XX-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | "Nell Nelson" Spends a Half-Day in the Princess Knitting Company's Unwholsomene Factory
August 18, 1888
Nell Nelson works a job usually completed by female child laborers at a Chicago factory. Part of an undercover ...XXI-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | A "Times" Reporter Gets into a Paper Box Manufactory That Puzzles and Bewilders Him
August 19, 1888
The final article in the "Nell Nelson" undercover series looks at a paper box factory, and also responds to ...XXII-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | They want Neither Pity, Charity, Nor Tracts but Practical instruction
August 26, 1888
Nell Nelson follows up her undercover reporting on the working conditions for women in Chicago's factories with a ...XXIII-"City Slave Girls" - Nell Nelson - Chicago Daily Times | A Poor Sewing Woman's Story of Pain, Poverty, and Privation, Sickness and Sorrow
August 27, 1888
The Times publishes a letter written in response to the City Slave Girls series, with commentary, as one of two ...Helen Campbell's "Prisoners of Poverty Abroad"
1889I-"A Sale of Souls" - W.H. Brommage - San Francisco Chronicle | Inside History of the Slaving Cruise of the "Blackbird" Steamer Montserrat; An "Examiner" Reporter Ships on the Slaver and Exposes an Infamous Trade; A Hideous Traffic Conducted Under the "legitimate" Plea of Supplying Laborers by Contract; Ignorant Gilbert Islanders Lured From Their Homes To Die In Fever-Infected Plantation
October 15, 1892
The first part of Brommage's two-part expose of the California blackbirding industry.II-"The Blackbird Cruise" - W.H. Brommage - San Francisco Chronicle | "Further Details of the Slaver 'Mont Serrat’s' Expedition to the Gilbert Islands; A Probable Explanation of the Disaster That Befell the “Black-Birder” Tahiti; The Strange Story of the Pirate Jergerson Rivaling the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; A Native Execution Described"
October 16, 1892
The second part of Brommage's two-part expose of the California blackbirding practice.I-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Special Investigation by The Argus; A Representative on a Recruiting Schooner"
December 3, 1892
Australian conservative newspaper The Argus sent reporter J.D. Melvin undercover on The Helena, a blackbirding ...II-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Natives Homeward Bound; The Voyage to the Solomon Islands"
December 5, 1892
The first installment of J.D. Melvin's undercover report from on-board the blackbirding vessel The Helena.III-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Reception of Returned Laborers by their Tribes; The First Attempt to Recruit"
December 6, 1892
The second article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...IV-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner;The Natives Shy; Inspection by a Warship"
December 7, 1892
The third article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...V-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D.Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; The Safeguards Against Deception; First Recruits"
December 8, 1892
The fourth article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...VI-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Operations in Port Adam; Additional Recruits Obtained; Refusal of Recruits"
December 9, 1892
The fifth article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...VII-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Death of a 'Return'; A Large Number of Recruits Obtained"
December 10, 1892
The sixth article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...VIII-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Re-engagement of Former Labourers; Two Women Accepted; Death of a Recruit"
December 12, 1892
The seventh article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...IX-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; The Last of the 'Returns' Landed; Brisk Recruiting"
December 15, 1892
The eighth article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...X-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Competition Between Labour Ships; Re-Victualling Necessary"
December 16, 1892
The ninth article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...XI-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; In Missionary Precincts, Large Accession of Recruits"
December 17, 1892
The tenth article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...XII-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; A Full Ship; The Nineteenth 'Boy' Obtained"
December 19, 1892
The eleventh article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...XIII-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Return to Bundaberg; Safe Landing of the Boys"
December 20, 1892
The twelfth article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time spent as a crew ...XIV-"The Kanaka Labour Traffic" - J.D. Melvin - The Argus | "Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Concluding Comments; Stringency of the Regulations; The Cost of a Kanaka"
December 22, 1892
The thirteenth and final article in The Argus' series "The Kanaka Labour Traffic" by J.D. Melvin about his time ..."Experiences of a 'Blackbirder' Among the Gilbert Islands" - Arthur Inkersly and W.H. Brommage - Overland Monthly
June 1, 1894
W.H. Brommage's tales about being a "blackbirder" on a slave ship.Elizabeth Banks' "Campaigns & Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London"
1895Paul Gohre's "Three Months in a Workshop: A Practical Study"
1895"Factory Girls in the Big City" - Lucy Hosmer - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 26, 1896
An undercover expose of life for the working women of the shoe factories of St. Louis, under the direction of ...William Wyckoff's "The Workers: An Experiment in Reality"
1897I-"The Woman That Toils" - Bessie van Vorst - Everybody's Magazine | "Experiences of a Literary Woman as a Working Girl"
September 1, 1902
The precede in Everybody's reads: "The following is an account of the writer's actual experiences while working for ...II-"The Woman That Toils" - Marie van Vorst's- Everybody's Magazine | "Experiences of a Literary Woman as a Working Girl"
October 1, 1902
Marie van Vorst at work in a Lynn, Massachusetts shoe factory under the name of Belle Ballard for "The Woman That ...III-"The Woman That Toils" - Bessie van Vorst - Everybody's Magazine | "Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls"
November 1, 1902
Bessie van Vorst working undercover in a knitting mill at Perry, New York for a five-part series in Everybody's ...IV-"The Woman That Toils" - Marie van Vorst - Everybody's Magazine | "Being the Experiences of a Literary Woman as a Working Girl"
December 1, 1902
Marie van Vorst's experiences posing as a worker in a southern mill for a five-part series in Everybody's Magazine, ...Lillian Pettengill's "Toilers of the Home: The Record of a College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant"
1903V-"The Woman That Toils" - Bessie van Vorst's - Everybody's Magazine | "Experiences of a Literary Woman as a Working Girl"
January 1, 1903
Final part of the series by the sisters-in-law van Vorst investigating how women of the other half live and work.Bessie (Mrs. John) and Marie van Vorst's "The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls"
1903I- "Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" -Lillian Pettengill -Everybody's Magazine | "A College Woman's Experiences as a Domestic Servant"
March 1, 1903II-"Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's Magazine
April 1, 1903III-"Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's Magazine
May 1, 1903IV-"Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's Magazine
June 1, 1903Jack London's People of the Abyss
1904Review: Jack London's "People of the Abyss" - Edward Clark Marsh - The Bookman
February 1, 1904
An article that is highly critical of Jack London's account of poverty in London's East End as depicted in his book ...Review: Jack London's "People of the Abyss" - Unsigned - Current Literature
April 1, 1904
A very positive but unsigned review of Jack London's "People of the Abyss." The author applauds the book for its ...Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
1906Followup to "The Jungle" - "The Condemned-Meat Industry" | A Reply to Mr. J. Ogden Armour
May 1, 1906
Sinclair responds to an article by Chicago meatpacking magnate Mr. Armour, who claimed that government inspection of ..."Is 'The Jungle' True?" - Upton Sinclair - The Independent
May 17, 1906
In this article for The Independent, Sinclair asserts that life in Packingtown is as he describes it in The Jungle ...Editorial following "The Jungle": "The Beef Investigation" - The Independent
May 31, 1906
An editorial lending support to the accurate portrayal of Chicago's meatpacking industry in Upton Sinclair's "The ...I-"The Woman's Invasion" - William Hard; Rheta Childe Dorr -Everybody's Magazine
October 1, 1908
Another series published by Everybody's Magazine about women at work in the United States in a variety of low ...II-"The Woman's Invasion" - William Hard; Rheta Childe Dorr -Everybody's Magazine
December 10, 1908
Part II of yet another series for Everybody's Magazine by William Hard and Rheta Childe Dorr, who went ...III-"The Woman's Invasion" - William Hard; Rheta Childe Dorr -Everybody's Magazine
January 1, 1909
Part III of the series on women at work in the first decade of the twentieth century in Everybody's, a ...IV-"The Woman's Invasion" - William Hard; Rheta Childe Dorr -Everybody's Magazine
February 1, 1909
Part III of the series on women at work in the first decade of the twentieth century, a topic Everybody's ...V-"The Woman's Invasion" - William Hard; Rheta Childe Dorr -Everybody's Magazine
March 1, 1909
Part III of the series on women at work in the first decade of the twentieth century, a topic Everybody's ...VI-"The Woman's Invasion" - William Hard; Rheta Childe Dorr -Everybody's Magazine
April 1, 1909
Part VI, the final chapter in yet another series on women at work in the first decade of the twentieth century, a ...Rheta Childe Dorr's "What Eight Million Women Want"
1910George Meek's "Bath Chair Man"
1910Frances R. Donovan's "The Woman Who Waits"
1919Whiting Williams' "What's On the Worker's Mind By One Who Put On Overalls To Find Out"
1920I-"Working with the Working Woman"- Cornelia Stratton Parker - Harper's Magazine | "No. 1075 packs chocolates"
June 1, 1921
Parker's 1921 six-part series for Harper's, later collected into a book published by Harper & Brothers, examining ...II-"Working with the Working Woman" - Cornelia Stratton Parker - Harper's Magazine | "In a Brassworks"
July 1, 1921III-"Working with the Working Woman" - Cornelia Stratton Parker - Harper's Magazine | "Days in a Laundry"
August 1, 1921IV-"Working With the Working Woman" - Cornelia Stratton Parker - Harper's Magazine | "In a Dress Factory"
October 1, 1921"Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York"
1921V- "Working with the Working Woman" - Cornelia Stratton Parker - Harper's Magazine | "Labeling Pillowcases in a Bleachery"
November 1, 1921VI-"Working With the Working Woman" Cornelia Stratton Parker - Harper's Magazine | "Pantry Girl in a New York Hotel"
December 1, 1921Cornelia Stratton Parker's "Working with the Working Woman"
1922Charles Rumford Walker's "Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker"
1922Frances R. Donovan's "The Saleslady"
1929"Bronx Slave Market" - Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke - The Crisis
November 1, 1930
From the magazine: "In the Bronx, northern borough of New York City, known for its heavy Jewish population, exists a ..."Hungry" - Lauren W. Gilfillan - Forum and Century | Part I
June 1, 1932
From the precede: "'There's a coal strike on in the Pittsburgh field. Why don't you go there and live with the ..."Hungry" (Part II) - Lauren W. Gilfillan - Forum and Century | Part II
July 1, 1932
Second part of Lauren Gilfillan's recounting of her experiences posing as a miner's child in community with the ..."Weary Feet" - Lauren W. Gilfillan - Forum and Century
October 1, 1933
From the precede: "In order to find out at first hand the exact conditions under which girls work in the New York ...Lauren Gilfillan's "I Went to Pit College"
1934James Agee and Walker Evans' "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
1941I-"I Was a Part of the Bronx Slave Market" - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Part One in a five-part series in the New York Compass on Cooke's experiences posing as a domestic-for-hire at the Bronx "slave market" of 1950
January 8, 1950
Marvel Cooke, the first black and only woman reporter at the New York Compass in 1950, reprised an earlier ...II-"Where Men Prowl and Women Prey on Needy Job-Seekers"- Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Part two in a five-part series in the New York Compass on Marvel Cooke's experiences posing as a domestic day laborer.
January 9, 1950
In this second part of Marvel Cooke's five-part series on the Bronx slave mart, she describes the double threat for ...III-"'Paper Bag Brigade' Learns How to Deal with Gypping Employers" - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Part three in Marvel Cooke's five-part series for the New York Compass in 1950 on the domestic day labor market in the Bronx
January 10, 1950
Part three of Marvel Cooke's five-part series on the Bronx "slave mart," where she posed as a day laborer seeking ...IV-"'Mrs. LeGree' Hires Only on the Street, Always 'Nice Girls' - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Part four in Marvel Cooke's five-part series for the New York Compass in 1950 on the Bronx "slave mart," where women domestics went to find jobs as day laborers.w l Co
January 11, 1950
Part four of Marvel Cooke's five-part series for the New York Compass on the "Bronx slave mart," where women unable ...V-"Some Ways to Kill The Slave Market" - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Last in Marvel Cooke's five-part series for The New York Compass on the Bronx slave mart.
January 12, 1950
Some ideas from the Domestic Workers Union for suppressing the resurgence of the "slave markets" of the Bronx, ...I-"I Saw Human Shame as a Migrant Worker" - Dale Wright - New York Telegram and Sun
October 10, 1961
For six months, on and off, Dale Wright worked as a migrant worker. This is the first article in the "Forgotten ...II-"Migrant Pay $4.32 a Day In Florida Tomato Field" - Dale Wright - New York Telegram and Sun
October 11, 1961
In the context of four migrant worker deaths in a labor farm fire, Dale Wright continues his reporting based on six ...III-"Migrants Live Horror Story in Job Travel" - Dale Wright - New York Telegram and Sun
October 12, 1961
The third in a series of articles based on the six months that Dale Wright posed as a migrant worker on the Atlantic ...IV-"Migrant Labor Exploited by Delay Trick" - Dale Wright - New York Telegram and Sun
October 13, 1961
The fourth installment to the Dale Wright's series on the conditions of migrant workers continues with a look at how ...V-"Speed-Up Forces Migrants to Quit Job Before Payday" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun
October 16, 1961
The fifth installment of 'The Forgotten People' series. Speed-ups and child labor were parts of daily life for the ...VI-"Migrant Workers Need U.S. Protection" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun | Farm States Won't Help; Laborers are Gypped Everywhere They Go
October 17, 1961
The sixth installment to 'The Forgotten People' series. Dale Wright moves from Florida to South Carolina and goes ...VII-"Farm Camp Slum, Exposed 8 Years Ago, Is Still Hell" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun
October 18, 1961
The seventh installment of 'The Forgotten People' series. Dale Wright moves undercover as a migrant worker to New ...VIII-"Migrant Accepts Gyp as Part of Life" | Lack of Schooling Makes Him Easy Mark of Cheat
October 19, 1961
The eighth installment in 'The Forgotten People' series. Dale Wright looks at the tricks some farm operators use to ...IX-"Migrants Exist in Duck Sheds" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun
October 20, 1961
The ninth and second to last article in Wright's series on migrant workers focuses on New York State.X-"State Could Remedy Conditions for Migrant Labor" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun
October 23, 1961
The tenth and final article in 'The Forgotten People' series, based on Dale Wright's undercover reporting as a ...I-"A Bunny's Tale" - Gloria Steinem - Show Magazine | "Show's First Expose for Intelligent People"
May 1, 1963
Gloria Steinem goes undercover as a Playboy Bunny in 1963 to experience a bunny's life in Hugh Hefner's New York ...II-"A Bunny's Tale" - Gloria Steinem - Show Magazine
June 1, 1963
Gloria Steinem goes undercover as a Playboy Bunny to experience what life was like for the young women who worked as ..."Waiting for the Eagle to Fly: With Nappy Chin, Hoppalong Geech, and Big Momma Rock Undercover" - Les Payne - Newsday | Undercover at Migrant Labor Camp
July 11, 1970
Les Payne went undercover posing as a migrant laborer for a week in Long Island, New York.“[Alaska Pipeline] Workers Complain of Boredom, ‘Rip- Off’ Complaints” - Mike Goodman - Los Angeles Times
November 18, 1975
Goodman reported by making an "impromptu, unescorted tour" of a pipeline section near Fairbanks, confirming "massive ..."Alaska Today- Runaway Crime and Union Violence" - Mike Goodman and William Endicott - Los Angeles Times | Alaskan Crime: Crime Wave, Teamsters Chief Have Stranglehold on Alaska
November 18, 1975
Results of a two-month LA Times investigation of lawlessness and a union stranglehold on the Alaska pipeline.Gunter Wallraff's "The Undesirable Journalist"
1979Intro: "The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution
December 1, 1979
Introduction to the Atlanta Constitution's six-part series on Georgia's lowest wage earners. The facsimiles come ...I-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "The Turpentine Men: Hard Woods Toil for Little Pay"
December 1, 1979
Lee May spends a week working with the turpentine men of the South Georgia woods to learn about their lives in Part ...IA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected"- Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "For Many Americans, Work Pays Off in Poverty"
December 1, 1979
The Constitution found underpaid workers in these industries: ice plants, poultry, gas stations, deer tongue, motels.IB-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Charles Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Junior Sears: A Man Born to Turpentine"
December 1, 1979
Profile of Junior SearsIC-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "L.D. Davis: 'Boss Had The Pencil'"
December 1, 1979
Profile of L.D.Davis, one of the turpentine laborers, who got out of the "web of work" to be "his own man" through a ...ID-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Jim Palmer: He Recalls Bad Days in the Woods"
December 1, 1979
Profile of Jim Palmer, who recalls life as a worker in the turpentine woods.II-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Endless Debt Haunts Turpentiners"
December 2, 1979
The second part in Goolrick and Lieberman's series discusses the endless debts and lack of options of turpentiners.IIA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Naval Stores Ages-Old, but Few Like Living in the Past"
December 2, 1979
Naval stores are the ingredients used in scores of products "from paint thinner and wood stains to medicated soaps ...III-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "No Golden Eggs in Georgia's Chicken Sheds: Whole Families Labor On Poultry Farms to Earn Paycheck of a Single Workman""
December 3, 1979
The third installment in the series by Lieberman and Goolrick describes the involvement of whole families in work on ...IV-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Charles Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Motels, Gas Stations: Motel Maid's Wages Fall Into Crevice in the Law"
December 4, 1979
A look at the lives of underpaid motel maids in Georgia. Charlene Smith-Williams worked as a motel maid for the ...IVA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Some 'Surprised . . . I Pay $2.50'"
December 4, 1979
Sidebar with Jane Love, who with her husband Sandy, owned and managed the "38-unit Rose Garden Motel on Interstate ...IVB-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Unique Deductions Push Pay Below U.S. Minimum"
December 4, 1979
Sidebar about a laundry presser.V-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Ice Toters, Ministore Clerks: Over 40 Years, A Corporation's Pattern of Underpaying Workers"
December 5, 1979
Reporters look into the pattern of underpaying workers at the Atlantic Co., Inc., an Atlanta-based conglomerate that ...VA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Munford: Minimum Wage a Tragic Thing"
December 5, 1979
Dillard Munford, whose company runs Majik Markets, the nation's second-largest convenience store chain, decries the ...VI-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Work Ethic Alive Amidst Poverty: They'd Rather Collect Weeds Than Welfare"
December 6, 1979
Constitution finds the American work ethic alive and well, even at the lowest paid level of employment.VIA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Wage Enforcers Overwhelmed by Complaints"
December 6, 1979
The final entry in the "Underpaid and Under-protected" series dives into what happens with workers' complaints.VIB-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Beverly Worrell Has Done Battle 38 Years for Nation's Underpaid"
December 6, 1979
Sidebar profile of Beverly Worrell, an attorney who has devoted his career to fighting for the rights of underpaid ...Response: "Pulse of the Public: 'Underpaid ...' Series: 'Excellent Work'" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution
December 7, 1979
A short letter to the newspaper, responding to the "Underpaid and Under-protected" series by Chester Goolrick and ...I-"Merlina's Job in Oscar Herrera's Factory" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 14, 1981
The first in a series of articles about LA sweatshops, based on undercover reporting as a Spanish-speaking worker by ...II-"Five Days' Work for Felix Mendoza, $38.74" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 15, 1981
Wolin continues her account of working undercover in California sweatshops, the underworld backbone of the state's ...III-"'This is the filthiest of all industries'" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 16, 1981
Wolin looks into the Health Department's investigations into the state of California's garment industry.IV-"Homework: The Alien’s Secret Support System" Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 18, 1981
The third chapter of Wolin's undercover work in the garment industry. Here, the reporter examines garment ...V-"Seven Hours in a Union Shop for $2.50" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 19, 1981
Wolin, as part of her investigative series on Los Angeles's garment industry, is hired to work in a union shop, ...VI-"Merlina faces the labor commissioner - and wins" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 20, 1981
The reporter confronts a union shop she worked in undercover as an undocumented worker as part of an investigation ...VII-"'I"m not Joan of Arc. I'm a garment manufacturer.'" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 21, 1981
The seventh chapter in Wolin's series of reports on the LA garment industry. Wolin spent time working undercover in ...VIII-"The work is 'killing' Martha and Oscar" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 22, 1981
The reporter, who worked in several factories in LA posing undercover as an undocumented worker, confronts the ...IX-"The fading of Felix Mendoza's dream" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 23, 1981
Wolin returns to the first factory she visited undercover as an illegal garment worker in Los Angeles, and ...X-"Employer Meets Employer—Merlina, Melton, Mendoza" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 25, 1981
Wolin confronts another manufacturer about her time spent working undercover in several LA garment factories.XI-"It’s Another Mike Wallace Trick!" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 26, 1981
Wolin confronts another owner of a manufacturing plant, after working undercover in the LA garment industry as an ...XII-"The retailer's side of the story" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 27, 1981
Wolin talks to retailers who sell clothes from the manufacturers she worked for posing undercover as an undocumented ...XIII-"Who are the players? What are the problems?" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 28, 1981
Wolin continues her investigative report on LA's garment industry, based on time spent undercover working in factories.XIV-"Bradley: 'I wouldn't want to speculate...'" -Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 29, 1981
Wolin interviews LA's Mayor Bradley about the working conditions and lack of regulation she found while posing ...XV-"Brown: 'It's wrong for a civilized society...'" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald Examiner
January 30, 1981
Merle Linda Wolin interviews California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. about her findings after reporting undercover ...XVI-"What it will take to 'outlaw slavery'" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald Examiner
February 1, 1981
Final piece in the Sweatshop series, based on the reporter's undercover work in LA's garment industry.Editorial: "What to do about 'Sweatshop'" - Unsigned - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
February 8, 1981
An editorial on the effects of Wolin's undercover reporting from Los Angeles's garment industryTheodore Dreiser's "An Amateur Laborer" (written 1904, published posthumously)
1983I-"Dirty Work" - George Getschow - Wall Street Journal | "The Day Laborer's Toil Is Hard, Pay Minimal, Security Nonexistent; In Houston, the Jobless Fill Labor Pools That Retake Part of Each Day's Wage; The System at Krash Cabin"
June 22, 1983
Getschow lives the life of a day laborer in this,, part one of a two-part series for the Wall Street Journal, a ...II-"Dirty Work" - George Getschow - Wall Street Journal | "Louisiana Labor Camps Supply 'Warm Bodies' The Oil Business Needs; Laborers Often Earn Little Beyond Debt to a Camp; Life at a Halfway House; Some Citizens Defend System""
June 23, 1983
Part Two of George Getschow's "Dirty Work" series for the Wall Street Journal for which he lived and worked among ...I-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "The Long, Hot Wait for Pickin' Work"
October 9, 1983
Neil Henry describes his journey from a Washington, D.C. soup kitchen known as SOME House to the "pickin'" fields ...II-"The Black Dispatch'" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "Slim Pickin': Taken for a Ride, Sold 'Like Cattle'"
October 10, 1983III-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "Half a Day Nets $1.50 and 'Supper'"
October 11, 1983IV-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "A Wretched Reality of Life in the Fields"
October 12, 1983V-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "Homeward Bound: Trading Buckets for Bus Tickets: The Northbound Highway Home"
October 13, 1983VI-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "Looking for Answers About Workers and Wages"
October 14, 1983Gunter Wallraf''s "The Lowest of the Low"
1985"War Games: In Alabama’s Woods, Frank Camper Trains Men to Repel Invaders" - Timothy K. Smith - Wall Street Journal | "Prep School for Mercenaries Has Notorious Graduates, Seminar in Throat Cutting—A Paramilitary Fantasy Land,”
September 19, 1985The Lost First Edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
1988"Long, Hard Days - at Pennies an Hour" - Dinah Lee and Rose Brady - Business Week | Chinese Teenagers Are Toiling in the Foreign-Owned Sweatshops of the Special Economic Zones
October 31, 1988
This piece is provided for comparison purposes. Then Business Week editor Steve Shepard pressed the reporter to find ...Ted Conover's "Whiteout: Lost in Aspen"
1991"Made in China" - Ed Bradley - CBS Sixty Minutes
September 15, 1991
Undercover footage shot by Harry Wu, a former prison camp inmate, of Chinese forced labor camps. The report won a ...Ben Hamper's "Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line"
1992"Invisible Man" - Lawrence Otis Graham - New York Magazine | Why did this $105,000-a-year lawyer from Harvard go to work as a $7-an-hour busboy at the Greenwich Country Club — and what did he find?
August 17, 1992
Lawrence Graham, a Harvard alum and lawyer, goes to work as a busboy in a Greenwich country club."A Dirty Job" - Dick J. Reavis - Dallas Observer | For Thousands of Dallas Workers, Dangerous, Low-Paying Temporary Jobs Have Become a Permanent Way of Life
July 15, 1993
Dick J. Reavis reveals working conditions as a temporary worker in Dallas, Texas."9 to Nowhere -- These Six Growth Jobs Are Dull, Dead-End, Sometimes Dangerous" - Tony Horwitz - Wall Street Journal | "They Show How '90s Trends Can Make Work Grimmer for Unskilled Workers"
December 1, 1994
This was the centerpiece of Tony Horwitz's 1994 series for the Wall Street Journal on dead-end low-wage jobs for ..."The Jungle Revisited" - Tony Horwitz - Wall Street Journal
December 1, 1994
Tony Horwitz explains how Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" hasn't fully changed the slaughter and packing industry."65 Cents an Hour - A Special Report" - Jane H. Lii - New York Times | "Week in Sweatshop Reveals Grim Conspiracy of the Poor"
March 12, 1995
Lii spends a week as a Chinatown sweatshop worker."Made in the U.S.A." - Helen Zia - Ms. magazine
January 1, 1996
Helen Zia goes undercover for Ms. Magazine to investigate the sweatshops of San Francisco that employ Asian-American ...Lawrence Otis Graham's "Member of the Club"
1996"Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" - Barbara Ehrenreich - Harper's
January 1, 1999Ted Conover's "NewJack: Guarding Sing-Sing"
2000"Guarding Sing Sing" - Ted Conover - The New Yorker | A Firsthand Account of theDysfunctional Relationship Between Guards and Inmates
April 3, 2000
Excerpted from Ted Conover's "Newjack," recounting his experiences working as a corrections officer at Sing-Sing."At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die" - Charlie LeDuff - New York Times | Who Kills, Who Cuts, Who Bosses Can Depend on Race"
June 18, 2000
This piece was part of the New York Times "How Race Is Lived" series of 2000, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for ...Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickle and Dimed"
2001"My Life As a Secret Policeman" - Mark Daly - BBC News (UK)
October 21, 2003
Mark Daly, a BBC reporter, went undercover as a police officer to investigate racism within the London Police ...Steve Striffler's "Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food"
2005I-"The Great Experiment Begins" - Jan Wong - Toronto Globe and Mail | Coming Clean
April 1, 2006
First part of Jan Wong's series as an undercover maid in Canada.II-"Modern Times" - Jan Wong - Toronto Globe and Mail | The Rules: No Radio. No Eating. No Talking. No Laughing. And Never Use a Clients Washroom
April 8, 2006
Second part of Jan Wong's series as an undercover maid in Canada.III-"Cinder Sam and Benderella" - Jan Wong - Toronto Globe and Mail | $1 Specials: Hot Dogs, Buns, Spaghetti Sauce, Peanut Butter, Frozen French Fries
April 15, 2006
Third part of Jan Wong's series as an undercover maid in Canada.IV-"Maggie and Me" - Jan Wong - Toronto Globe and Mail | The Perfect Maid Crumbles
April 22, 2006
Fourth part of Jan Wong's series as an undercover maid in Canada.Barbara Ehrenreich's "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream"
2006"I Was a Slave in Puglia" - Fabrizio Gatti - L'Espresso (Italy) | Exploited. Underpaid. Lodged in filthy shacks. Beaten to death if they complain. Diary of a week in hell amidst the foreign laborers in the province of Foggia
September 4, 2006
Gatti goes undercover to experience the "triangle of slavery," his description of the tomato-picking business in Puglia.Pete Jordan's "Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States"
2007Jerry M. Newman's "My Secret Life on the McJob: Lessons from Behind the Counter Guaranteed to Supersize Any Management Style"
2007Alex Frankel's "Punching In: The Unauthorized Adventures of a Front-Line Employee"
2007Craig Seymour's "All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington D.C."
2008Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson's "And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
2008"Banks Reject First-Timers" - Nicola Byrne - The Daily Mail (London) | Mail Investigation Uncovers Financial Firms' Reluctance to Mortgage One-Bed Apartments, Crucial Bottom Rung on the Property Ladder.
November 24, 2008
An undercover reporter for the Daily Mail posed as a first-time home buyer revealing that banks will not give loans ...Dick J. Reavis' "Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers"
2010Timothy Pachirat's "Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight"
2011Tracie McMillan's "The American Way of Eating: Undercover on the Front Lines of Our Nation's Meals"
2012"I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave" - Mac McClelland - Mother Jones | My brief, breathtaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the only online-shipping machine.
March 1, 2012
Journalist Mac McClelland was asked by his editors to go undercover posing as a warehouse worker at Amalgamated ..."Chinese Reporter Goes Undercover at Foxconn on 'iPhone 5' Production Line" - Jon Russell - TNW blog
September 12, 2012"Undercover Reporter Reveals Conditions at Foxconn iPhone Factory" - Charlie Osborne - ZD Net | A Chinese undercover reporter has documented his experiences working at Foxconn's Tai Yuan factory, presumably the production of the 'iPhone 5'
September 12, 2012
A Chinese journalist went undercover as an iPhone assembler at a factory for ten days to expose the horrible working ..."Funeral Workers' Insult to the Dead" - Nikki Murfit - Mail Online (UK) | Staff Chanted 'Chelsea Scum' Before Stealing Man's Coffin, Making Racist Remarks and Cruel Jokes in TV Expose
September 22, 2012
A reporter went undercover working for Gillman Funeral Services to expose the derogatory and disgraceful actions ..."The Amazon Archipelago" - Ida Ince - Critical Legal Thinking | Foreign workers at an Amazong 'labour camp' near Bad Hersfeld are subject to shocking and inhumane treatment.
February 15, 2013
A German television channel went undercover exposing the inhumane and shocking treatment foreign workers endured ..."The Way of All Flesh" – Ted Conover - Harper's Magazine | Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse
May 1, 2013
Ted Conover goes undercover as a meat inspector in an industrial slaughterhouse for Harper's.