The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair, Eric Schlosser, Ronald S. Gottesman
4.3
(96 ratings)400 pages182 editions2016Innovative Eggz LLCISBN 9781945644078
FictionClassicsLiteraryPoliticalCity Life
About this book
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Upton Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the changing lives of immigrants traveling to the United States and landing in Chicago or other industrialized cities.
Sinclair exposed shocking government and business corruption in this 1906 best seller. He worked undercover in the meatpacking Chicago stockyards to describe in true detail the horrific conditions among workers and the food they produced.
His work, intended as a message to promote socialism, instead caused changes in the food industry with laws signed by Theodore Roosevelt as the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. "I aimed at the public's heart," Sinclair wrote, "and by accident hit its stomach."
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Innovative Eggz LLC
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9781945644078
- Language
- en
- Editions
- 182
About Upton Sinclair
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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