Meat Inspection Act

Immigrant Life in Chicago Severed limbs, bacterial diseases, nauseating smells; this was the atmosphere of the Chicago stockyards in the early 1900s. Unfortunately for immigrants to Chicago, there was no choice but to submit to the repulsive tasks of the meatpacking industry as they had no other options. Work conditions were just a small portion of the many dark sides to immigrant life. In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposes the evils of capitalism by detailing the brutal lives of immigrants in Chicago

In The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, Sinclair reveals his attitude towards the the meat industry by saying it is unsanitary, treats their employees unfavorably, and makes everyone who works there dislike it and it is not what the immigrants thought it would be like. Throughout the book, Sinclair uses may qoutes telling about the difficulties that the employees that worked at the meat industry had to go through. During the Industrial Revolution, the rules regarding cleanest in a working place were much

Jungle to expose the harsh conditions of the meat-packing industry, which led to new federal food safety laws. This, however, was not the only point Sinclair was attempting to portray in this novel. While industry was one of the points addressed in The Jungle, another main point Sinclair wanted to get across to the public was that immigrants were being treated very poorly in American society. By 1904, immigrants made up most of the workforce of the meat-packing industry, so they had to deal with

The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair. The jungle is a Fiction book that is based on the meat packing industry in Chicago in early 20th century. Sinclair Upton was American author, socialist, and a famous reformer of the early twentieth century. After the publication of this book, Upton acquired fame, but he also caused public anger/disgust that ultimately lead to the creation of FDA (Pure Foods and Drugs Act) in 1906 in the United States. During his time, he wrote almost 100 books, and won the Pulitzer

An author’s beliefs can often greatly influence their work and the responses to them. This is especially true with Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Sinclair had prejudices that affected how The Jungle was written and how the public reacted to it. These biased opinions both added to and distracted from the purpose of the novel in many ways. The text would be much different in style and content if Upton Sinclair did not input biased opinions. Likewise, the way the public and critics reacted to The Jungle

Who is Upton Sinclair? A novelist and a political writer. I am also referred as Muckrakers, reform-minded American journalists who wrote magazines or books during Progressive era. What inspires to write? Best novel? My involvement in socialism motivated me to write. I am well known because of my novel “The Jungle”. Why did you wrote The Jungle? The working conditions in the past was not good at all. Just to expose (or you can say) highlight the terrible working conditions in the meatpacking

Upton Sinclair was not only an activist; he was a journalist, a politician, and a writer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20, 1878, to father Upton Beall Sinclair Sr. and mother Priscilla Harden Sinclair, Sinclair Jr. was a creative child. Growing up in a house where his father was a liquor salesman, he grew up in poverty. However, he got to enjoy the spoils of the rich due to his, religiously strict, mother’s family. At the age of 10, Sinclair’s family moved from Baltimore to New York where

outcry against big business in favor of the exploited and poorly treated immigrant workers in the meatpacking industry. However, the novel had the unintended effect of helping bring about the passage of federal food-inspection laws after people realized the impurities present in processed meat. Even Theodore Roosevelt took notice of Sinclairs' work, even agreeing with some of the ideas, saying, "Radical action must be taken to do away with the efforts of arrogant and selfish greed on the part of the capitalist

These gut-wrenching, nose-turning descriptions caused readers to focus only on the grotesque nature of the way their meat was handled in the early 20th century and caused a revolution in industry standards for meatpacking. Sinclair’s real aim however was merely to instill the idea that capitalism in America is fundamentally flawed and leads to corruption and destruction

society from social ills through his exposes. Consequently, The Jungle became a catalyst for cleaner, safer food production. Nonetheless, after completing Sinclair's novel, it was evident that Sinclair's purpose was not to criticize the condition of the meat in the slaughterhouses. Instead, The Jungle was written to condemn, what Sinclair thought to be, two social ills of