to the points in Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser about how the workers need to stay working at a fast pace in order for the meat packing industry to make more money. If the workers are on track then the process of the meatpacking industry is doing excellent.The way meatpacking plants operate it leads to mistreatment of the predominantly immigrant workers who already are not paid enough for their labor. To begin with‚the cycle of mistreatment
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horrors that happened behind the scenes of the meatpacking industry. That was until “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. This book unmasked the monstrosity that was the meatpacking industry and impacted audiences like no other book has. Sinclair used graphic depictions such as dead rats being put in the food and spoiled meat still being used to impact the audience and achieve his purpose. One of the disgusting facts that Sinclair mentioned about the meatpacking industry was that they used very old‚ bacteria-infested
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plant. Frank’s first encounters at the packinghouse set the tone for what is to entail. Racial tensions combined with aggressions concerning class associated positions boil just barely beneath the surface on the "killing floor." Conditions at the meatpacking plant are considerably less then favorable. The hours are long‚ the work is backbreaking‚ and the position in which he works does not pay very well. However‚ Frank’s compensation for these conditions are his relationships with the other men whom
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the 2oth century while The Jungle is more of the 1940. Now when we look back on the olden time of how meat was processed we have come to realize the mistakes and with the advancement of technology we have gained a much better understanding on how meatpacking works and how we showed preserve the meat better to not cause harm to the people and to the manufactures. In the Jungle they had very few explores who they traded meat with and did not have the technology created yet to help them take better care
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immigrant‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ comes from a poor family in Lithuania and wants to now support his future wife‚ Ona Lukoszaite by working for a meatpacking factory in Chicago. Jurgis soon realizes that America and its’ people and opportunities are not all that he thought they would be. Sinclair exposes the horrors and disgust that goes on “behind the scenes” in meatpacking industries. Jurgis and Ona were madly in love and wishing and hoping that one day that could have a wedding of their own‚ as they sit
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During the time of Sinclair?s novel the meatpacking industry was experiencing its ?heyday? and had evolved from simple stockyards and slaughterhouses into what appeared to look more like miniature cities meatpacking plants. This immense evolution for the meatpacking industry was a direct result of the technological advancement and innovations that resulted from the previously mentioned Industrial Revolution
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Burner‚ D.‚ Marcus‚ A. (2007). Conditions at the Slaughterhouse.‚ In M. Dougherty (Ed.)‚ America Firsthand (7th ed.‚ pp. 119 - 126). Boston‚ MA: Bedford‚ St Martin. 2. Sinclair‚ U. (1946). The Jungle.‚ (5th Ed.) New York‚ NY: Viking Penguin. 3. MEATPACKING. (2000). In Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Farmington‚ MI: Thomson Gale. Retrieved January 29‚ 2009‚ from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/6890804/gale01035. 4. Animal by-products premises. (2007‚ September). A-Z
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chose to represent the industrial world through the meatpacking industry‚ where the rewards of progress were enjoyed only by the privileged‚ who exploited the powerless masses of workers. The Jungle is a novel and a work of investigative journalism; its primary purpose was to inform the general public about the dehumanization of American workers. However the novel was much more effective at exposing the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry. The public’s concern about the meat supply
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*Comparative/Contrast Assessment*: Fast Food Nation **and The Jungle Similar to the many real-life stories told by Schlosser in his written depiction of the fast food industry‚ The Jungleby Upton Sinclair is a notable relation of the same type of horrors. Unlike Schlosser‚ though‚ Sinclair writes his book in a fictional story line‚ in which he included great models of figurative language and imagery that strategically capture the reader in a world full of sympathy and belief. In this manner
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The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair can be considered one of the most influential novels written at the beginning of the 20th century. Though largely known as the book that resulted in the creation of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act‚ The Jungle illustrated the harsh working conditions and ruthless competition that plagued the meat-packing plants in Chicago. Sinclair’s original intention for writing the book was to point out the flaws of capitalism‚ the greed that plagued society
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