The Iron Heel Chapter 3 - Jackson's Arm

In which the painful consequences of industrial toil are vividly brought to life through the tale of Jackson, a maimed mill-worker whose case for justice reveals the tangled alliances and moral compromises binding the legal and industrial machine. Through encounters with weary foremen and disillusioned lawyers, the narrator unearths the grim reality that even truth and right are often powerless against the cold forces that govern society’s vast and merciless apparatus.