During this time period the working conditions‚ health issues and metal stability of workers was at an all-time low. Especially in the meat packing industries were this family had to endure many hardships. These problems include overworking their employees‚ failing to maintain basic safety measures‚ as well as being completely unsanitary. An example of this is when Jurgis is forced to work in an unheated slaughterhouse during winter‚ and when he sprains his ankle due to an unsafe work environment
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Food Processing Throughout the history of mankind science has searched into the realms of the unknown. Along with it bringing new discoveries‚ allowing for our lives to become healthier‚ more efficient‚ safer‚ and at the same time‚ possibly more dangerous. Among the forces driving scientists into these many experiments‚ is the desire to preserve the one fuel that keeps our lives going; FOOD. As early as the beginning of the 19th century‚ major breakthroughs in food preservation had begun. Soldiers
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overly concerned with making profit; far more than the health of their workers. The cheaper the labor cost and the cost of sustaining a clean atmosphere; the more profit the owners would get. This led to a filthy and perilous working environment. The meat packing industry may have been the worst. It had high productivity‚ but its condition declined to the point of
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treated‚ while The Jungle is about how the meat is processed. The Most Dangerous job is an article while The Jungle is a novel based on a story. Both stories are about the working conditions in the slaughterhouse and also on how the meat is cared for. In The Most dangerous job this articles gives the reader an image of people working in a slaughterhouse which really isn’t the best job but they are things that we do to earn money.
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A report from the American Meat Institute shows that the U.S. is home to about 6‚000 meatpacking plants. Millions of jobs all over the country are made through meatpacking plants. These low paying‚ risky jobs are swept up by men and women‚ these people unknowing of what exactly they have gotten themselves into. The meatpacking‚ today‚ has become one of the most dangerous jobs in America. As found by Steven Greenhouse of the New York times‚ “…the nation’s meat packing industry has such bad
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workers. The novel is most famous for its influence on the meat packing industry. The novel describes unsanitary working conditions. Leslie Levin writes‚ “Sinclair describes Jurgis’s hell of a workplace as hot‚ dark‚ dirty‚ smelly and‚ above all‚ filled with germs and disease” (Levin 3). The meat was processed in unsanitary industries. George Shaduri‚ in reference to the setting in which The Jungle was written‚ writes‚ “Not a gram of any meat‚ healthy or ill‚ goes to waste” (Shaduri 2). It was common
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you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world ’s largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol‚ there is--literally--feces in your meat. Schlosser ’s investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton
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Good Recommendations The recommendations made by the Human Rights Watch group are good steps in increasing the safety for workers in the meat packing industry. Workers of any industry deserve to work in the safest work environment available and should be afforded to work with and use safe equipment and tools. They also should be taught to know the hazards involved with their taskings. Employers have a responsibility to ensure these elements of safety occur in the workplace. The problem is that
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are putting into our bodies‚ and what is being hidden from us by the food industry. The United States has grown so much in the food industry from the past. One of the industries which accounts for most of the market in the US is the meat packing industry. The top 5 meat industries controlled 25% of the market back in 1970‚ and now that number has risen to an outstanding 80% of the market (“100 Days of Real Food”). This is indeed a great accomplishment for our country; however what is the secret behind
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Jungle by Upton Sinclair‚ is fictional story that deals with a very real and shocking reality associated with turn of the century American immigrants. It is a story of a Lithuanian man‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ who comes to America in search of the “dream” with his new fiancee and her family. In their search‚ they actually find something totally different from the American dream. What they discover is a world of corruption‚ injustice‚ and poverty. The lives of immigrants
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