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Background information on The Jungle by Upton Sinclair b

Background information on The Jungle by Upton Sinclair b. Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). DF.

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Background information on The Jungle by Upton Sinclair b

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  1. Background information onThe Jungle byUpton Sinclairb

  2. Upton Sinclair(1878-1968) • DF “Impoverished Lithuanian immigrants the Rudkus family are wage slaves to the Chicago meat-packing industry, working in appalling conditions under non-existent or unsafe sanitary practices. Sinclair immersed himself in the community of these people and his muckraking exposé details the shocking methods employed in procuring 'human grade' meat products. Harshly critical of the capitalist industrialist system, it led to meat inspection legislation and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Sinclair personally sent a copy of his book to then American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” (The Literature Network)

  3. Lithuanian Immigrants Come to Chicago

  4. Chicago Meat-packing industry • Packingtown=Back of the Yards=Stockyards • Near 47th and Western

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