The Impact Of Labor Unions In The Jungle By Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

The men mistreat the animals for way too long, and to the animals being unfed was the last straw in their miserable lives. Even while only eating the bare nutrients in order to survive, the men still expect the animals to perform their jobs to their full potential. Consequently, the animals then break into the storage shed that contains food and help themselves to food. The men then enter the shed with whips to punish the animals, and “this was one more than the hungry animals could bear..they flung themselves upon their tormentors” (38). After being abused and mistreated the animals could no longer tolerate their poor living conditions, so they carry out the rebellion by kicking man off Manor farm.

Another example is having multiple workers getting injured like Mikolas who lost his hand and Antana who had a lung disease and died from the chemical that surrounded him in the pickle room, there’s no safety net or medical treatment given to them, if your sick or injured you are replaced with someone worthy of their money, you are replaceable. Another reason is when Jurgis found out about Phil Connor and Ona, Jurgis’s instinct overcame him, he attacked Connor and went to court and testified to the judges about what he has done to Ona but since Connor has power and connection all over the social structure in Chicago the judges believed Connor’s words against Jurgis. Everything that surrounded them was corrupted, the factories, businesses, policeman, judges, courtrooms, and the government. People lied about everything because they knew they could get away with it. Jurgis and his family came and migrated to American to live the American dream but instead, they lived and experienced the American

Sinclair bases these struggles on things that happen to Jurgis and his family. One example that the author describes is how thousands of men wait outside the workplace just to get a chance at a job. “All day long the gates of the packing houses were besieged by starving and penniless men; they came, literally, by the thousands every single morning, fighting with each other for a chance for life…. Sometimes their faces froze, sometimes their feet and their hands; sometimes they froze all together— but still they came, for they had no other place to go” (Sinclair 92). Another example the author displays is when Ona, Jurgis’s wife, dies after giving birth.

In the end, George is forced to make an extremely difficult decision that results in him taking on the rest of his life solo. This novel explores the effects of oppression on women, African Americans, and people with disabilities. First, the women of the Great Depression were oppressed greatly. In Of Mice and Men, Curley, the ranch owner’s son, has a wife that is not treated fairly. She confined to the small area of the farm and is often commanded to return to her home.

In 1598 Juan de Oñate and his men killed nearly two thousand Native Americans from the Acama Pueblo in retaliation for the death of eleven of his men. They then cut off one foot from every one of the men of fighting age in the two hundred men, women, and children that he spared. Some Spanish conquistadors had very little respect for the lives of the Natives. To many of them they were nothing but savages inhabiting land that they felt could be put to better use. While many Spanish explorers and priests came to the Americas with the intention of “helping” the Natives, whether or not the Natives ended up better worse off, some Spanish did truly have the mission that they wanted to make the Native’s lives better.

While in Chicago, the family lived in a cluttered and corrupt slum of the area. Part of the neighborhood was built upon a garbage dump, and the entire part of the city reeked like garbage and was filled horribly with flies. Jurgis still felt as though he still had much potential in this new land, however. Jurgis decided to go to the meatpacking plant and immediately was hired to a job sweeping blood and insides from slaughtered livestock through a drain. The job was hard and the conditions were very unsafe, but Jurgis was a strong and stubborn man and could not comprehend any man who was not thankful for the opportunity to have a job while earning a

In Jurgis’ first job, the health standards are extremely low. As I said before in my summary, “ Animals that are diseased were thrown in with the rest, rats constantly run over the meat and eat the meat, and when a human worker would fall into the meat chute, their screams would be ignored and they we packed with the rest of the meat.” If anyone of these things happened in a meat factory, the factory would be shut down and any person high up the imaginary latter would be sued extensively. Another thing that I learned is that you should never commit to an idea before it is proven.

When working twelve to fourteen hours a day in scorching hot weather, animals need food and drink to survive, but the slave owners thought otherwise. Slave owners thought that the job, the reason animals were brought to this world, was to work all day. Slavery of animals is depicted in many books from history, but one of the greatest and most famous novels is Animal Farm. In George Orwell’s 1945 novel Animal Farm, the various types of slavery portrayed are reflections of the types of slavery that existed in English society at that time.

Most slaves were so exhausted from the beatings, that they did not even want to eat, but if this happened, the white men would force food into their mouths. In the second passage it describes a slaves personal experience with this saying, “two of the white men offered me eatables and on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands and laid me across the windlass and tied my feet while the other flogged me

When the Industrial age came sweeping over Europe, Britain was one of many nations to have seized the opportunity. Mass migration of people into the cities where work became available in factories resulted in poor living conditions for most of Britain’s people during the nineteenth century due to overcrowding. It was estimated around seventy percent of Britain’s total population were working class people by the nineteenth century. This meant poor hours, small wages, and children were forced to work for the family to survive. Had it not been for necessity children would not have worked in conditions where they were continually ill-treated at least for one man who, in a survey conducted about the conditions of the work environment stated, “Necessity

That’s when he realized his chances of seeing his home country again were very slim. The smell under the decks were so terrible that he became so sick he was unable to eat; he wished death would relieve him. When it was time to eat and he refused, he got laid down, his feet tied and beaten badly. He found some of his countrymen and asked what was going on and they told him they are being carried to the white people’s country to work for them. The boat lacked fresh air and it was so hot and unbearable that people became sick and died.

The Industrial Revolution, although, helped us take our economy to the next level, created harsh lives for the young workers that worked in the factories. The factories were unsafe because in “History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain” by Edward Baines, it talks about how the children that worked would get eaten by the spinners and overlookers and had the same food every day while working 13 to 15 hours. By getting beaten everyday and working up to 15 hours a day they had weak limbs, making them grow inmobil and crippled. In the testimony of Joseph Herbergram, he stated that he, too, had damaged his lungs and leg muscles, couldn 't carry the weight of his own bones and became crippled. His damaged was caused by the dust in the factory

The American Dream, the idea that lures in thousands of foreigners into the Uniteds States yearly. The hopes of second chances, profound prosperity, success by hard work and new beginnings. In the Grapes of Wrath by John Stainflied and The jungle by Uptown Sinclair, both families in t his book are not exception. Soon, these immigrants learn the disastrous effects of being “ lower class” under the rich, the government and the landowners. Both themes___ the idea that the most damage was not done by those of authority, but in reality the most damage both families suffered was their own inclination to exploit one another and corrupt themselves in time of difficulty.

The populists created an economic reforms included an increase in money supply which caused a rise in prices on received goods and services; a graduated income tax; and a federal loan program. The Populists eventually lost attention when many in the South and Midwest switched parties during the elections. The people living in the South and Midwest were pushing for a democratic representative to get their goals to follow through. The economic crisis dominated in 1890’s which responded with strong forces on industrialization, the economy had grown too quickly. There were overbuilt railroads and companies had outgrown their markets, farms and businesses borrowed heavily for the expansion (P. 467).

The Industrial Revolution, a time of technological advancements and changing society, yet also a period marked with unfair and unsafe working conditions. In response to dismal working conditions labor unions emerged and although the workers’ pleas were the same, they were not united in their plight. It emerged as a struggle between American born workers and immigrants, they learned though, that if they united, they were much stronger than they were when divided. Three historians explored the topic of labor radicalism in this time and examined how laborers interactions with each other. The first historian, Philip Dreyfus, specializes in political radicalism and ethnic and class identities.