What was the name of the book written back in the early 1900's about the meat packing industry?

Answer 1

Indeed, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906) is perhaps the best example of social realism of that era. This book brought so much attention to the filthy working conditions in the meat packing industry that it led to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Sinclair, however, meant to portray the suffering of oppressed labor rather than health conditons. He was quoted as having said something to the effect the he aimed for America's heart and hit their stomach.

Would that there were some best-selling authors today writing realistic fiction about the hardships faced by the working class; for example, factory workers whose jobs are being shipped overseas; Hispanic immigrants (often illegal) who are being enticed here to work for low pay in terrible working conditions; the working poor whose salaries are not enough to support a family, or even lift them above the poverty level; part-time service workers, who daily serve the affluent but live their lives in or near poverty, for example, restaurant workers, janitors, employees of Wal-Mart.

At the same time, Sinclair was producing this fiction, the journalists and nonfiction writers called the Muckrakers were producing investigative reports that documented the injustice and corruption in this age; for example, Lincoln Steffens, the Shame of the Cities; Ida Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company; Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives; Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth; Sinclair himself, of course, and others. Their works were usually first published in popular magazines. Teddy Roosevelt called them "muckrakers," using a term from John Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress. However, he did approve of their work, and using their information he took leadership in a Progressive Era in American government. Here's what he said of these investigative reporters:

"There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful."

Where, today, when we need them so badly are our journalistic muckrackers? Where is our Upton Sinclair? And where is the political leader who takes them seriously and enacts reform based upon their findings?

Answer 2

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The Jungle
By:
Upton Sinclair

Answer 5

The jungle is a great book

Answer 6

the jungle by upton sinclair.