The Jungle

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An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle — his devastating exposé of the meat-packing industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking revelation of intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards. It quickly became a bestseller, arousing public sentiment and resulting in such federal legislation as the Pure Food and Drug Act.|The brutally grim story of a Slavic family who emigrates to America, The Jungle tells of their rapid and inexorable descent into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and social and economic despair. Vulnerable and isolated, the family of Jurgis Rudkus struggles — unsuccessfully — to survive in an urban jungle.A powerful view of turn-of-the-century poverty, graft, and corruption, this fiercely realistic American classic is still required reading in many history and literature classes. It will continue to haunt readers long after they've finished the last page. inspection act;meat inspection;packing houses;meat packers;drug act;socialist newspaper;social protest;chicago meat;pure food;chicago stockyards;drug administration;socialist political;meat-packing industry;processing industry;lithuanian immigrant;immigrant labor;packing industry;socialist propaganda;oregon files;du brul;meatpacking industry;packing plants;juan cabrillo;chicago politics;quantum computer;lithuanian family;meat processing;crony capitalism;food safety;meat packing;immigrant workers;capitalist society;socialist leanings;capitalist system;meat industry;filthy conditions;labor unions;food nation;life savings;penguin classics;marco polo;food production;child labor;immigrant family;promised land;fast food;history class;vivid detail;living conditions;american dream;health care;middle class;american history;macd;workingmen;stockyard;workingman;adulterated;vats;slaughterhouses;muckraking;uncensored;unsanitary;1906;1900's;factories;wage;socialism;manuscript;jungle;immigrants;jurgis rudkus;dirk pitt;gail eisnitz;jurgis rudkis;jack dubrul;eric schlosser;theodore roosevelt;peter kuper;adam smith;jack london;john smith;jurgis marija;clive cussler;gore;california;oregon;chicago;pakistan;washington;united states;myanmar;france;burma;lithuania;america;england;process industry;books on inspection acts;books on drug acts;books on pure foods;books on packing houses;books on social protests;pack houses;books on meat inspections;books on drug administrations