With the money from this bestseller Sinclair founded a socialist colony in New Jersey, which… 'mysteriously' burned to the ground within a year. From here the book turns into a didactic lecture about how socialism will cure all ills. He spent almost two months laboring alongside and covertly observing the lives of packinghouse operatives. Sinclair, born in Maryland and raised in a working-class family, took college classes at Columbia University before becoming a professional writer. In the second part, Jurgis eventually loses his job and family and is out on the street, and gets swept up by a meeting of Socialists. The Jungle is a muckraking novel written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Here we find some of the famous descriptions of the gruesome slaughterhouse, filled with danger and disease. The Rudkus family has moved to Chicago's Packingtown district looking for the good life, but run into trouble at every step with fraudulent, usurious tactics. The Jungle was in fact the catalyst for the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. This book has been taught for a century in English and sociology classes for its vivid and horrifying depiction of the slaughterhouse, the dangers of contamination and injury - conditions which were rife before any real regulation was set in place. Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, is treated like cattle himself amidst the slaughter of animals.

meatpacking industry and a corrupt economic system. The Jungle (1906) is a novel by Upton Sinclair which exposed the horrible conditions of the U.S.

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