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  1. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    The jungle, Upton Sinclair The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). ... The FDA was created largely due to the public outcry after the publication of this book. Jack London said in his review at the time, that the Jungle was the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery. The interesting ...

  2. Book Review: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    Book Review: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Summary: In the early 1900s Jurgis and his soon-to-be family by marriage decide to immigrate to the US from Lithuania. Having heard from an old friend that Chicago's Packingtown is where a working man can easily make his way in the world, this is where they head. Soon the family find themselves deep ...

  3. The Jungle

    The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. [1] In 1904 Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published the novel in serial form in 1905.

  4. The Jungle

    Table of Contents The Jungle, novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906.The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards.Because of the public response, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906, and conditions in American slaughterhouses were improved.

  5. Book Review: The Jungle

    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I recently revisited Upton Sinclair's The Jungle—the original edition published by a socialist newspaper in 1905, not the shorter version published by Doubleday, Page (after Macmillan ultimately rejected it) in 1906.. It wasn't surprising to see what had been left out of the original book (though the censored version was horrific enough) and I'm glad I had ...

  6. Book Review: The Jungle

    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a vivid and moving account of the meat processing and slaughtering industry in the early 1900's. The Jungle is a well-informed critique on the social, political, and economic issues of the food industry and the rapidly developing capitalist society of the earl 20th century. Sinclair uses a poor immigrant family ...

  7. 1001 Book Review: The Jungle Upton Sinclair

    1001 Book Review: The Jungle Upton Sinclair. by imabookwormy on September 21, 2016. I have finally returned to the land of the living. The last two days I've been knocked out by a horrendous cold which my daughter brought home from kindergarten. She had a mildly stuffy nose, while I felt like I was dying.

  8. Book Review: The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair's The Jungle takes readers back to a time when socialism was still a viable force in American politics. Many early socialists were devoutly religious in character, and perhaps this is why Mr. Sinclair later referred to his own turn toward socialism in terms of a divine epiphany --as a "conversion" sent from "fallen….

  9. Book Review: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    3 minute read. The Jungle is possibly one of the most referenced books in history and political science classrooms all across the United States. Sinclair's novel has generated worldwide renown and it achieved a great deal of public awareness (and public anger) about unsavory meat-packing processes. Though Sinclair wrote over 90 books, his name ...

  10. The Jungle

    The Jungle. Upton Sinclair. Penguin, Apr 2, 1985 - Social Science - 448 pages. "Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, [Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them." —Edmund Wilson When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle ...

  11. The Jungle

    An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle — his devastating exposé of the meat-packing 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.

  12. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Review

    This is a book review of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It's a great story about a struggling Lithuanian family led by Jurgis that moves to Chicago and works...

  13. 10 Facts About Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

    1. The Jungle was commissioned by a socialist newspaper editor. Upton Sinclair, who was born in 1878, began his literary career as a teenager. While enrolled at the City College of New York, the ...

  14. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: 9780812976236

    The Jungle, a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important - and moving — works in the literature of social ...

  15. Book Review: "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair (1906)

    Sinclair's description of Chicago's corruption struck a nerve in the President, a shameless reformer himself, even if the book's Socialist overtones seemed a bit much. Some say that Sinclair's book was the key ingredient in the formation of the American FDA, and it would be hard to argue against it.

  16. The Jungle : A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

    Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book ...

  17. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    The Jungle. In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of ...

  18. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Plot Summary

    The Jungle Summary. Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite are two young newlyweds who have recently emigrated from Lithuania to make their livelihood in Chicago. They have settled in the city's " Packingtown " area, where a largely immigrant population lives in squalor and works grueling jobs to survive. The couple celebrates their marriage at a ...

  19. The Jungle by Peter Kuper

    January 8, 2015. Peter Kuper's adaptation of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair is a graphic novel take of a historical classic. The original novel sparked the creation of the FDA. "The Jungle" showcases the disgusting conditions of meat processing plants and the poor quality of the meat itself through the view of the common people and the workers ...

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    The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Many readers were most concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American ...

  21. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. The book depicts working-class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant ...

  22. Biblioracle: 4 Chicago books on working for Labor Day

    We cannot talk about Chicago and Labor Day without first mentioning Upton Sinclair's classic, "The Jungle," informed by Sinclair's couple of months investigating deep in Chicago's ...

  23. La Jungle (roman)

    La Jungle (titre original en anglais : The Jungle) est un roman écrit par le journaliste et romancier américain Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), paru d'abord en feuilleton entre le 25 février 1905 et le 4 novembre 1905 dans le journal socialiste Appeal to Reason (L'Appel à la raison), avant d'être publié en volume en 1906 [1].Il a pour personnage principal Jurgis Rudkus, un immigré ...