The federal government authorized inspectors to visit all food plants
Upton Sinclair uses figuratiuve language in his novel The Jungle to demostrate the likelihoood between to things or ideas. Aditionally, the figurative language used ion this novel helps clarify the authors motifs and ideas. Upton Sinclair uses figuratiuve language in his novel The Jungle to demostrate the likelihoood between to things or ideas. Aditionally, the figurative language used ion this novel helps clarify the authors motifs and ideas. Upton Sinclair uses figuratiuve language in his novel The Jungle to demostrate the likelihoood between to things or ideas. Aditionally, the figurative language used ion this novel helps clarify the authors motifs and ideas.
The book "The Jungle" was important because it exposed the gruesome conditions in the meatpacking industries to consumers. He did us a favor by writing this book because it spoke about how the meat would be bought form sick animals and would be stored in the lower decks of ships and how rats and rat feces would be ground up in the meat because meat packers didn't care about what ended up in the meat they were more interested in capital.
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by journalist, socialist, and politician Upton Sinclair (1878-1968).[1][2] Sinclair wrote the novel with the intent to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States. However, readers were more concerned with the large portion of the book pertaining to the bad practices and corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, and the book is now often interpreted and taught as a journalist's account of the poor working conditions in the industry. The novel depicts, in harsh tones, poverty, the absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and the hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption on the part of those in power. Sinclair's observations of the state of turn-of-the-twentieth-century labor were placed front and center for the American public to see, suggesting that something needed to be changed to get rid of American wage slavery.[3] A review by Jack London called it, "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery."[4]
During the time The Jungle was written, Social Darwinism was the philosophy that represented most Americans' attitudes.[citation needed] It applied such concepts as survival of the fittest, "buyer beware," and minimal regulation (especially of factory conditions and workers rights) to the economy. Sinclair was one of the muckrakers, or journalists who exposed corruption in government and business.[5]
The novel was first published in serial form in 1905 in the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason between February 25, 1905 and November 4, 1905. It was based on undercover work done in 1904: Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards at the behest of the magazine's publishers.[6] He then started looking for a publisher who would be willing to print his work in book form. However, most refused. An employee at Macmillan stated "I advise without hesitation and unreservedly against the publication of this book which is gloom and Horror unrelieved. One feels that what is at the bottom of his fierceness is not nearly so much desire to help the poor as hatred of the rich."[7] After five rejections by publishers who found it too shocking for publication, he funded the first printing himself.[6] A shortened version of the novel was published by Doubleday, Page & Company on February 28, 1906 and has been in print ever since. The book was dedicated, by Sinclair, "To the Workingmen of America."[8]
Some of the characters in the novel were partially based on Sinclair's family. For example Ona Lukoszaite, Jurgis Rudkus's wife, was based on Meta Fuller, who was Sinclair's wife at the time.[9]
A film version of the novel was made in 1914. Sinclair played the part of the socialist orator in the film.[10] Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus, the main character was played by George Nash and his teenage wife Ona Luckoszaite, by Gail Kane. Distribution began on May 25, 1914.[11]
Upton Sinclair was what was called a "muckraker", or one who tried to expose situations which needed to be corrected in American society. In "The Jungle" Sinclair exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry and this resulted in a greater public awareness of the problem and passage of laws regulating that industry.
the Federal Meat Inspection Act the federal government authorized inspectors to visit all food plants
The jungle By Upton Sinclair -Apex
In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair creates a mood of disgust and dread.
The Jungle was a "social awareness" novel written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair. It contrasts the corruption of the meat-packing industry with the appalling conditions and day-today hopelessness the "lower classes" work and live in. Upon publication, (after 5 rejections) the Jungle became an instant best seller and has never gone out of print.
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The federal government authorized inspectors to visit all food plants
PETA aka People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
progressive movement
Corrupt politicians in several major American cities were voted out of office.
The publication of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" led to increased awareness of poor working conditions in the meatpacking industry, which in turn prompted government intervention in the form of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. These legislations marked a shift towards increased government regulation of business practices to protect consumer and worker rights.
In 1906, the publication of the jungle by Upton Sinclair led Congress to put in place stronger prohibition laws.
Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle resulted in the creation of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" was a revolutionary book. In it, Sinclair talked about the horrendous conditions for workers, and of the food, in a meatpacking plant. It is because of this book that the US has food safety standards and OSHA monitored workplaces.
I think it is 'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclaire
The horrifying conditions of Chicago meatpacking industry. It caused the congress to pass the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act.
upton sicnclair was the author of the book the jungle. it was about how aweful the meat packing industry was. he was a reformer in the late 1800's and his main intrest was the meat packing industry. he unwravled many truths about it and after reading his book theodor roosavelt became a veggitarian
Upton Sinclair's socialist beliefs and his desire to expose the harsh conditions faced by immigrant workers in the meatpacking industry inspired him to write "The Jungle." He aimed to bring attention to the exploitation and corruption he witnessed in order to ignite social change and improve working conditions.