The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair's 1906 bestseller The Jungle is a startling and powerful novel depicting the plight of Jurgis Rudkus, a Slavic worker who immigrated to the United States in the early 20th Century for a better life. His dream of a finding a job, building a family, and buying a home are initially fulfilled in the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. Work in the meatpacking industry proves to be a harrowing and desperate existence, and his personal life is beset by a succession of hardships and tragedy. As bleak as his journey is, Jurgis finally finds his light in a newfound political ideology. The Jungle is considered profoundly important in its exposure of despair at the margins of working-class life, and the atrocious descriptions of the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking process. The novel led to revolutionary reform of the industrial food industry and workers' rights, and powerfully addresses many of the same issues that we are still grappling with today.
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Sinclair, U. (2020). The Jungle. [United States], Mint Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sinclair, Upton. 2020. The Jungle. [United States], Mint Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle. [United States], Mint Editions, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. [United States], Mint Editions, 2020.
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