For many decades the food system was an endless controversial issue on how our food was processed and the impertioness. This issue influenced Upton Sinclair who wrote a book called “The Jungle”, which exposed the secrets of the meat industry and unsanity poor conditions of the slaughterhouses, indeed, this book inspired president Roosevelt right into action for solutions for the problem, with great struggle the meat inspection Act of 1906 came into law. Till today many reformers and authors are exposing the large corporations that have full control over the food production and how fast foods had a huge affect on families all over the world. For example, Fast Food Nation, Food Inc, and Fast Food Babies had one aim and that was to bring awareness
• Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle” which exposed the conditions of the meat packing industry in Chicago. • Moved to Pasadena, California in 1915 and wrote 47 books by 1933. • Sinclair ran for governor of California in the election of 1926 and in 1930 but in 1933 ran as democrat for governor of California • “I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty: A True Story of the Future” (1933) a utopia novel written by Sinclair, if elected, he would end unemployment. • Sinclair proposed another program called End Poverty in California (EPIC) • If any farms were sold for taxes would be purchased by California and establish cooperative agricultures communicates known as “California Authority for Land.” This would only be put into effect
In 1904 Upton Sinclair was given $500 and commissioned by Fred Warren, the editor of the Appeal to Ransom to write about the wage slavery going on in Chicago’s packinghouse district after a failed strike by the workers. He was a socialist who had written several articles, political novels and was a patron of left-wing magazines. He spent seven weeks in Chicago doing his research. He was very much ill prepared for what he saw. He had never been in such areas, as he was raised in Baltimore and living in New Jersey.
Upton Sinclair, a socialist and muckraker (Source 2), wrote The Jungle in order to promote socialism, but what really popped out was the few pages of descriptive horrors of the meat-packing industry (below). They were so descriptive that its said that when Franklin Roosevelt read it, it convinced him to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act. However, despite all this, The Jungle was written to show how socialism would positively impact America and the world. This point was illustrated through the lives of an immigrated Lithuanian family.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair follows the life of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus and his family living in Chicago. Jurgis finds work at Brown's slaughterhouse and there he endures harsh working conditions as well as his family members. Ultimately he and family suffer many tragedies related to their work environments. While this book is a work of fiction it mirrors real life. The Jungle was published in 1906 during the Gilded Age.
Sinclair, a socialist writer, was a struggling writer. An editor recommended that Sinclair investigate the strike that was happening in Chicago because of the unfit conditions of meat packers. Sinclair followed his suggestion. In 1904, at the age of 26, he went to Chicago to examine the conditions of the workers in the meat packing industry and figure out why the workers were on strike. Sinclair interviewed not only the workers involved in the meat packing industry but families, lawyers, doctors, and social workers.
Meat was the first food that triggered food-related federal laws. In the early 1900s there was a steep rise in the price of food, especially meat. Many people blamed the National Packing Co., which was created by the three major meat packing companies. Their monopoly allowed them the ability to control prices on the market with little competition. At this time, Adolph Smith wrote a series that detailed the unsanitary conditions in the Chicago meat packing plants in the medical journal The Lancet.
Upton Sinclair, a successful muckraker in the early 1900s, is the author to the gut-wrenching novel, The Jungle. In this story, Sinclair incorporates real facts he learned from going, undercover, into a meat-packing factory. Upton believed that the working conditions and the lifestyle the immigrants were forced to live in, during this time, were heinous; because of this he strives to create a novel that will gain the attention of the government and large factories in order to create better working conditions and quality of life. To accomplish this feat Sinclair subtly compares the meat-packing factory to a jungle; he speaks of physical and mental aspects such as temperature and a hierarchy, includes ages and lifespans, and also integrates animal imagery. Fusing all of these different factors gives The Jungle the exact jungle-like atmosphere Sinclair was hoping to obtain.
In The Jungle Upton Sinclair tried to expose how cruel slaughterhouses were to the animals and how poor the quality of the meat was. Sinclair investigated a slaughter house with the eye witness of two immigrants. The slaughterhouse they went to was willing to and made a great effort of showing visitors their facility. The immigrant Jokubas had a suspicion that the slaughterhouse would limit what the visitors see and tries to make the slaughterhouse seem ethical. The slaughterhouse has to filter what they showed to visitors, especially after when Sinclair tried to expose them.
In The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Rudkus, two Lithuanian immigrants who have arrived in Chicago, are getting married. They hold their veselija, or wedding feast, in Packingtown, Chicago because it is the center of the meat-packing indusrty. The highlight of the celebration is the acziavimas, a traditional Lithuanian dance. Each guest help the couple pay for the wedding which can cost up to three hundred dollars- more than a years paycheck for many of the guests. Some though dont contribute and just attend for the free food and drinks.
In 1878, Upton Sinclair was born, an advocate writer that changed the meat packing industry forever. He was born in Maryland to an alcoholic father and headstrong mother. From birth he was exposed to dichotomies that would affect his mind at an early age. Sinclair was raised on the edge of poverty and would often visit his mother 's wealthy family. At age 14, Sinclair attended the City College of New York.
For my book report I chose to read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. This book focused on the malicious traits of capitalism. These flawed features are displayed throughout the book through events that the characters go through. The book later turns to show that the solution to all the capitalist problems happening in the book is socialism. I believe the overall purpose of this book was for Sinclair to express his beliefs of a better system and to expose the dangerous things that come with capitalism.
A target for criticism for decades, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle has been controversial since its first publishing in 1906. Literary critics commonly discredit the novel’s formal features; usually associating its failures to Sinclair’s political ideology. While historians give blame to external events, especially in political context to the novel’s popularity. In either argument, it is agreed that the novel is a loser (Wilson).
The influence of Upton Sinclair upon our world cannot thoroughly be measured in just a few short paragraphs or even one study. Sinclair 's work for which he was most famous, The Jungle, written in 1906, was just one of many examples of one person 's ability to change the world they live in. While the topic of The Jungle was bringing to light the horrible working conditions associated with the meat industry, the work accomplished so much more. Of course people were enraged when they found out they were probably eating rat meat along with their favorite meats but they also began to see how much hardship immigrants were going through just to try and make a living in the country at the time. Sinclair didn 't just interview people to get the
Throughout Upton Sinclair’s late teen years he invested time in being an undercover investigator. He began his investigation in Packingtown, Chicago in its unsanitary factories. Sinclair was disgusted; therefore, he exposed these conditions to help later pass the Pure Food and Drug Act along with the Meat Inspection Act. Throughout the context of The Jungle, Sinclair aims at the character and setting to expose the meat packing industry to contain the public’s health.
The story of "The Jungle" happened in September 1904 in Chicago slaughter house strike, Sinclair wrote an article sympathy for the workers for the strike workers in a magazine called "Call of Sense", Widely welcomed by workers. Afterwards, this magazine sponsored him for $ 500, allowing him to spend some time in the slaughterhouse. Sinclair spent seven weeks with the workers at the Chicago slaughterhouse and saw and heard many sensational things. When he got back to his home in New Jersey, he spent nine months writing "The Jungle" exposing the disgusting production environment and processing of the meat processing industry. The enormous media pressure caused by this book has forced the U.S. Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drugs Act and the