‘The Jungle’ is not the first novel of Upton Sinclair, but it must be one of the strongest influences of the twentieth century. Theodore Roosevelt was able to push the parliamentary passage of the Food Law and the Meat Supervision Act in the dead end of the novel. The novel is a blatant and disgusting chronicle based on the strike of a slaughter house worker in Chicago in 1904. Sinclair showed the tired and poor appearance of a crowd of people who wanted to breathe freedom by tearing up the American myth that had been considered blessed. Instead, the capitalist cogs of corruption and greed have swallowed ineffective immigrants, while low-wage workers are slaves for their livelihoods. In this book, he proposed a way for the California government …show more content…
The movement was driven by effective propaganda and quickly gained public fervor and EPIC clubs were built throughout California. There was a flood of activists, union activists, socialists, and progressive intellectuals, who had just emerged at the time. Sinclair was in the primary election for Democratic California governor's election until the election, with Sinclair receiving the most votes for the candidates for office in the primary election. The capitalists of the state of California have made an effort to drop him from the governor 's election. Moreover, even the Democratic leadership did not want his election. President Roosevelt, the Democrat of the New Deal, spoke outright, not Sinclair, but a Republican candidate. In the end, the Republican candidate won in the governor's election, and the EPIC movement disappeared into a chapter of history. However, it should be noted that the socialist alternative, which is much more progressive than the New Deal at the time of the New Deal, was noticed. In particular, it should be noted that the measures for revitalizing the economy were carried out in an attempt to try experiments beyond capitalism. The EPIC movement seeks to capture more than just panic measures by first creating production and employment through the creation of a huge public sector, and secondly by creating a new economic order based on co-operation and solidarity