The Jungleby Upton Sinclair | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 350 |
| Year of Publication: | 1906 |
| Date Read: | 07/14/1988 |
| Notes: | The world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom and opportunity. The reader discovers, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. COMMENTS — The novel was written when Sinclair was sent by the socialist weekly newspaper Appeal to Reason to investigate working conditions in the meatpacking industry. In The Jungle, he was attempting to show the plight of the working man. But his description of conditions in the meat-packing industry were so shocking that it led to a government investigation and the eventual implementation of regulations on the food industry. |
| My Rating: | 5 |