Who Is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

Upton Sinclair, a socialist, and muckraker rallied public outcry for labor equity, he launched a consumer movement through the midst of a harsh stockyard strike from unfairly payed wage workers, socialist writer. He is best known for his novel, The Jungle which underlined the devastating exposé of Chicago’s meat-packing industry. A protest novel he published in 1906, the book as a result was quite the shocking revelation of incomprehensible labor practices and unsafe working conditions that were held in Chicago stockyards. The description’s spoken in Sinclair’s book issued the truths about diseased and spoiled meat processes that were not regulated until he exposed them. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited

Before the turn of the 20th century, multiple reform movements were taken place in the United States. These were known as progressives, reformers sought to help with problems caused by the fluctuation of factories and cities, such as Chicago, New York, Los Angles. They concentrated on improvements for peoples living in slums, poor families living on dirty and cold streets. Reformers also wanted to get rid of corruption in government. They had started to attack huge money making monopolies such as the Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, and meat-packing companies for their unsanitary conditions. The progressives showed how these corporations killed the competition, raised prices, and treated their workers as “wage slaves.” However, one man named Upton Sinclair had this ideology of exposing the horrid working conditions in the meat-packing industry along with juxtaposing insight on socialism through a fictitious narrative as a labor expose’. As reported by New York Times editorial writer, Adam Cohen, he claims Sinclair had hoped that, “the book, which was billed as “the ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ of wage slavery,” would lead to improvements for the people to whom he dedicated it, the workingmen of America.” (Cohen, A16) The solution, Sinclair surely believed, was certainly belief that never changed: to provide the American people with hardcore truths that would help understand

This ongoing has been a large discussion for many people. He exemplifies that through Eric Schlosser of the “Dark Side of the All-American Meal” (2001) and how San Franciscans, fretted largely about, “the nutritional dangers to their children’s health, began the last century by banning “roving pie vendors” who catered to the “habitual pie-eating” habits of schoolchildren and prohibiting the sale of soft drinks on school campuses.” (Leitcher) The question then becomes at the center of all the health promotions advertised, the advice spoken, and advocacy, to what lengths do one literary novel change the social fabric of how Americans look at food