Exposes how the upper social classes were blinded by their own success and how they didn't care about the people who made it possible for them to live their upper class life style. Therefore, workers, their families, and other unskilled workers were forced to live in overcrowded, tarnished houses and very small apartments. Due to the mistreatment and difficult condition, they suppress their problems and emotions by indulging in the comforts of alcohol consumption. Davis' images allow readers to connect to "the reality of soul hunger, of living death, that you encounter every day beneath those besieged faces on the street." “Life in the Iron Mills” exposes the truth and misery of working class struggles and how unjust the American class structure is