Inequity In Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Inequity is a situation in which there is a reduction in neutrality between groups of people and a decrease in the justice served to them. However, this right has not been given fairly to people at all. The fight against inequity was improved upon and positively impacted by the Workers Rights movement. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the industrial revolution was in full swing in the United States of America, but they needed people to operate the machines. When people were found to work these jobs, they were often minorities who were mistreated. These mistreatments included horrible working environments, low pay for discriminated groups, and extreme danger for employees. Some of these conditions resulted in horrible disasters and freak

One reformer who decided to take action was Upton Sinclair. “Upton Sinclair published his book, ‘The Jungle.’” Upton Sinclair was a white, socialist man born in the U.S, whose goal was to turn the U.S.A into a socialist country. He was also a prolific author, writing for many magazines, and writing books as well. Upton Sinclair found out about a horrible meat-packing factory located in Chicago, in the year 1904. This factory abused the hard work of thousands of immigrants. Being the writer he was, and his goal, Upton Sinclair decided to write a book, aiming to convince the U.S population into socialism by writing about this meat-packing factory. In order to collect information, he worked undercover in the meat-packing factory for seven weeks during 1904. The factory was horrible, he said. Many of the workers were horribly hurt, with damaged hands, and there were thousands of rats in this factory, transferring more diseases than one could count. When he ended up publishing his book on November 4th, 1905, it brought light onto the inequity being dealt out to those poor immigrants. However, his intended purpose of the book was, as said before, to make the U.S.A a socialist

This evidence proves that the actions taken, specifically the book, ‘The Jungle,’ written by Upton Sinclair, helped the fight against inequity by bringing the mistreatment of immigrant meat-packing workers in the U.S.A, and how they were unfairly treated inside the factory itself, into the attention of the public. The book also helped two acts be passed, both relating to food. These acts would also push back against inequity towards different groups of people in the workplace. Before Upton Sinclair, another person who formed Workers Rights, and in turn, positively impacted the fight against inequality as a whole, was Eugene V. Debs. First of all, Document 1 relates to inequity as the majority of the workers in the train and railroad industry were either African-American, or Chinese. The workers there were minorities, and were treated unfairly and unequally to their white counterparts. Eugene V. Debs was a man who sought to help these poor workers, and led the massive strike, titled the 1984 Pullman Train Car