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1  Marija was getting to be a skilled beef-trimmer, and was mounting to the heights again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
2  If he were of the highly skilled workers, he would probably have enough saved up to tide him over.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  He would bring to it all the skill that practice had brought him, and he would stand, whoever fell.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
4  The finishing of pants did not take much skill, and anybody could learn it, and so the pay was forever getting less.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
5  The old scale had dealt with the wages of the skilled men only; and of the members of the Meat Workers' Union about two-thirds were unskilled men.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
6  Mrs. Olszewski, who lived next door, and had a husband who was a skilled cattle butcher, but a drinking man, gave nearly half a dollar, enough to raise the whole sum to a dollar and a quarter.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
7  They had fooled the company, however, for her son was a skilled man, who made as high as a hundred dollars a month, and as he had had sense enough not to marry, they had been able to pay for the house.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
8  The painting of cans being skilled piecework, and paying as much as two dollars a day, Marija burst in upon the family with the yell of a Comanche Indian, and fell to capering about the room so as to frighten the baby almost into convulsions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
9  The oldest of them, little Stanislovas, was but thirteen, and small for his age at that; and while the oldest son of Szedvilas was only twelve, and had worked for over a year at Jones's, Jurgis would have it that Stanislovas should learn to speak English, and grow up to be a skilled man.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4