Upton Sinclair Junior Division Ben Morris Period 2 Upton Sinclair was responsible for the uprising against the meat packing industry in the early 1910s. Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle was responsible for the uprisings. The Jungle was about when Upton Sinclair infiltrated a meat packing plant and told of all the un - humane and un - sanitary things they were doing to the workers. The Jungle exposed these things to the public and really outraged meat packing industries. Upton Sinclair was also the one of the pioneers for a type of journalism called muck racking. Upton Sinclair was a major Pioneer for the type of Journalism called muck racking, Upton Sinclair caused Rebellions against the meatpacking industry, Upton Sinclair wrote …show more content…
Muck Racking is a type of journalism in which the journalist goes undercover into an operation; in Upton Sinclair’s case it was going undercover into the meat packing industry. He originally did this to write an article for a local socialist newspaper; called Appeal to Reason, but it was eventually turned into The Jungle. The Article was read many times before it was released in book form by Upton Sinclair himself. Due To Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, the public arose and protested the meat packing industry. They put congress under a lot of pressure and that pressure led congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act. Upton Sinclair was almost entirely responsible for the passing of these acts. If he did not write The Jungle then there would have been no acts because the citizens would have never known about the workers. Upton Sinclair risked his life to write his novel The Jungle. Upton Sinclair was over worked, he had to work near sharp equipment without protection, and he was around quite a few dangerous chemicals without protection and all of this took place over a six month period of time. When Upton Sinclair did this he was just doing it for a socialist newspaper. Upton Sinclair had no intention of turning it into a book until a friend from the company suggested it a year or so after it was first