The Iron Heel Chapter 4 - Slaves of the Machine

In which a young woman, newly awakened to the harsh realities beneath her genteel education, confronts the grim consequences of industrial cruelty through the story of Jackson’s maimed arm, unraveling the tangled web of societal injustice and the complicity of law, press, and class. She navigates the polished façades of wealth and authority, only to find the aristocratic masters and their wives embraced an ethic that sanctifies their power while dismissing the suffering of those bound beneath them.