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A 6 page paper which examines how the book condemns the fundamental underpinnings of capitalism, as articulated by third-generation Slovak Johnny “Dobie” Dobrejcak and its deepest implications, as conveyed through the major male characters and events that either support or refute this view. No additional sources are used.
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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
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