Manufacturing And Processing Industry In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

In the middle to late 1800s, there was a period in history commonly known as the Gilded age. It was called the Gilded age because immigrants from around the world saw the life in the United States as a magical world of easy living, but when they actually got to the U.S they were severely let down,and plagued with a life of suffering and hardships. In Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle he does an amazing job of illustrating one of the biggest conflicts in the immigrants lives. During this time, the manufacturing and processing industries were corrupt in many aspects such as their treatment of their workers, the process of the meat, and how the factories are run.
One of the ways the manufacturing industry was corrupt, was how the meat had been