The Jungle
Slaughtering and slaughter-housesSociologyLithuanian AmericansFictionHistorical Fiction
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Open LibraryAbout this book
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.
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Slaughtering and slaughter-housesSociologyLithuanian AmericansFictionHistorical FictionEmigration and immigration
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Chicago (Ill.)IllinoisChicagoUnited States1865-1918
About the author
Upton Sinclair
20 September 1878 – 25 November 1968
Upton Sinclair, Jr., was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. --Wikipedia
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