The Jungle (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• William A. Bloodworth Jr., Upton Sinclair, Twayne, 1977.

  A brief, comprehensive, scholarly look at the author's career and how his political activities intertwined with his social goals.

• Floyd Dell, Upton Sinclair: A Study in Social Protest, Do-ran, 1927.

  Dell was a prominent writer and social activist in Sinclair's time, and his critical study tends to view Sinclair and his achievements favorably.

• Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, Quadrangle Books, 1969.

  Over five hundred pages is given to examination of the politicized union that few readers know about today, but that influenced labor relations throughout the twentieth century.

• Thomas J. Jablonsky, Pride in the Jungle: Community and Everyday Life in Back of the Yards Chicago, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

  A full-spectrum look at the area, keeping readers current with the changes that have taken place in the stockyard neighborhood since Sinclair's book was published, and as a result of it.

• Harvey Swados, "The World of Upton Sinclair," in The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1961, pp. 96-102.

  A look at Sinclair as a social force, apart from his literary worth, from a poet and short story writer who, though not a household name, was himself important in the literature of his day.

• Louise Carroll Wade, Chicago's Pride: the Stockyards, Packingtown, and the Environs of the Nineteenth Century, University of Illinois Press. 1987.

  Wade offers a heavily-annotated, scientific look at the neighborhood described in The Jungle during its formative years, before the events in the novel take place.