One of these locations near Woedolor Mountain is contrasted with the “Paradise of Bachelors” in a story by Herman Melville. After losing her job at one of these locations due to catching a cold from not having a winter coat, a novel’s protagonist runs into Charles Drouet for the second time. Carrie first finds work in one of these places in Sister Carrie. In a novel, a teenage boy drunkenly passes out in one of these buildings and is eaten by rats. After attacking his wife’s boss in one of these buildings, a character becomes the cellmate of Jack Duane. Ona works in one of these buildings in a novel that follows the Lithuanian Rudkis family moving to Chicago. For 10 points, name these buildings that Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle criticized for their poor working conditions in the meat industry. ■END■
ANSWER: factory [accept paper, shoe, or meatpacking factory or plant; accept paper mill; accept slaughterhouse; prompt on “the Tartarus of Maids” by asking “what kind of location is it?”; prompt on workplace or business] (The Melville story is “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.”)
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