Meat packing plant are completely different than what Upton Sinclair described it in the novel. The meat packaging plants in the 21st century is must cleaner than novel interprets it because we have rules and regulations to protect people from getting sick. The meat packaging plant where dirty‚ putting things it the meat that were not food‚ and the plants were unsanitary. Let’s examine how they were. First‚ what is the good of laws without fair and equitable enforcement? This means why do they
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The Power of Money and Greed in Society The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published almost century ago and it showed the Americans the problems that existed in the early nineteenth century‚ the industrialization timeline. Sinclair’s target was the workers who were mistreated in various workplaces‚ such as the meat packing companies in Chicago‚ so that they may be treated fairly. Sinclair wanted a future society where common people (those mostly that worked at the workplaces) to form a group and
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19th Century Industrialization Nineteenth Century Industrialization During the second half of the nineteenth century‚ the United States experienced an urban revolution unparalleled in world history up to that point in time. As factories‚ mines‚ and mills sprouted out across the map‚ cities grew up around them. The late nineteenth century‚ declared an economist in 1889‚ was "not only the age of cities‚ but the age of great cities." Between 1860 and 1910‚ the urban population grew from 6 million
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In the nineteenth century‚ America was sizeable as it delved into the Industrial Revolution and watched its economy grow. With new technology and a voracious appetite for capital goods‚ the nation’s productive capacity multiplied. Cities formed as business owners built factories that attracted and hired millions of workers. Immigrants poured into the country‚ while prospective settlers west found the frontier closed. The working class was scrambling for employment and factories willingly provided
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In Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle‚ published in 1906‚ a sense of injustice towards the working class and need for socialism is present. Sinclair intended to illustrate the vast majority of immigrants in Chicago at the turn of the century; providing details and examples of abuses in the meatpacking industry merely as a means of demonstrating their troubles. After the publication of The Jungle‚ Sinclair stated‚ "I aimed for the public’s heart‚ and by accident I hit it in the stomach." He used those words
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After industrialization during the 19th century American life was never the same. Political changes included the need for government involvement in a Laissez-faire type of government involvement in business as well as the emerging of new political parties. There were also social changes the most apparent being the increasing gap between the poor and wealthy in the factories. Economics also transformed into big business owners‚ poor workers and low earning farmers in southern rural areas. The American
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“At a Slaughterhouse‚ Some Things Never Die‚” LeDuff explains how immigrants get‚ “the dirty jobs at the factory… Where a person might make more than $8 an hour‚” (LeDuff). Upton Sinclair puts this into perspective in his novel‚ The Jungle‚ where Jurgis’ father Antanas works in‚ “a ‘pickle room‚’ where there was
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The jungle Even though The jungle by Upton Sinclair published 1906‚ was very influential in bringing some of the very famous meat regulation but it was not the initial goal of the book. The book’s initial goal was to expose the indignity people face‚ in particularly immigrants and the harsh conditions in which they had to work. The jungle was very instrumental in the reform of the packing industry and generated a huge public outcry that led to the new federal governments’ food safety
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eventually developed the Pure Food and Drug Administration Act. Upton Sinclair ’s novel described the daily routines of the meat-packing industry. Poisoned carcasses are only the lighter half of what was occurring within the factories in Chicago. Jurgis was an employee of a factory in which Sinclair described. Sinclair gave a detailed description of specific conditions. An example is how employees cleaned their hands with water that was also used for the sausages. There was also the meat left on
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The era of Realism began during America’s post-Civil War time during which the country was trying to reconstruct the South from its now non-slavery state. The use of Realism allowed authors to showcase the true light of America’s problems that dealt with segregation‚ remaining discrimination‚ and feminism. Segregation was a serious problem in America‚ as not only were blacks segregated still‚ but races from all over the world who immigrated to America were segregated just as much. In “The Jungle”
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