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Upton beall sinclair socialist, book, meat, and industry jrank. Upton sinclairs book the jungle remains an inspiration to journalists. In 1906, upton sinclairs novel the jungle uncovered harrowing conditions inside americas meat packing plants and initiated a period of transformation in the nations meat industry. Upton beall sinclair was a famous american writer and essayist whose book the jungle, an expose of chicagos meatpacking industry, shocked the nation and. It was founded in chicago, in 1867, by the armour brothers led by philip danforth armour. The jungle is a novel by upton sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a book in 1906. Regulation of the meatpacking industry began in 1906 after president theodore roosevelt read a book about the plight of the working class and the corruption of the meatpacking industry by journalist upton sinclair. The law reformed the meatpacking industry, mandating that the u. By 1880, the company had become chicagos most important business and had helped make chicago and its union stock yards the center of americas meatpacking industry. The book was a pulitzer prize winner and covered the facts of the meatpacking industry of the time.

President theodore roosevelt signed two historic bills aimed at regulating the food and drug industries into. Conditions in meatpacking plants 1906, by upton sinclair. Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twentyfive yearsparticularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulationhave had on workers, animals, and consumers. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the united states in chicago and similar industrialized cities. Meat packing blues a book examines when chicago was the king of. An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, upton sinclair is perhaps best known today forthe jungle his devastating expose of the meatpacking industry. Esther lombardi is a veteran journalist who has written about literature, education, and technology. Conditions in meatpacking plants 1906, by upton sinclairthe explosive growth of american industry in the late nineteenth century caused a similar expansion in the work force. I remember throughout middle school and high school learning about the jungle as the book intended to expose the american meatpacking industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking revelation of intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the chicago stockyards. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working. The book differs in many respects from the newspaper serial.

Denounced by the conservative press as an unamerican libel on the meatpacking industry, this book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including. The jungle, a 1906 novel by upton sinclair, is full of graphic descriptions of the poor conditions workers and cattle endured in the chicago meatpacking industry. Theodore roosevelt on june 30, 1906, that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. Working conditions in the new urban industrial zones were wretched, and a progressive reform movement soon grew out of the need to address the health and welfare of the american worker. He first published the novel in serial form in 1905 in the newspaper, and it was published as a book by doubleday in 1906.