Primary Resource Assignment In February 1906‚ the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group published the novel called The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. This novel exposed the plight of immigrants working in Chicago’s meatpacking industry. It depicted the severe working conditions of the meatpacking industries employees in Chicago and also described the unsanitary factory conditions that they had to work through during a daily basis. For example‚ some of the unacceptable conditions that were described were
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Comparison of the Causes‚ Effects‚ and Legacy of Upton Sinclair ’s The Jungle and Rachel Carson ’s Silent Spring Period 2 Maxwell Wang 1906 would see the publication of Upton Sinclair ’s The Jungle‚ pushing through major reforms of the meatpacking industry and eventually causing the government to take actions to protect the health of its people; almost fifty years later‚ the publication of Rachel Carson ’s novel Silent Spring would invoke a similar‚ but changed response to the threat of DDT
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of the meatpacking industry‚ became an enormous bestseller translated into seventeen languages within weeks of its publication in 1906. But while The Jungle has long been associated with food production‚ the book is actually a much broader critique of early twentieth-century business and labor practices in the rapidly growing cities of the United States. The Jungle is the story of Jurgis Rudkus and his family‚ Lithuanian immigrants who come to America to work in the meatpacking plants
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Taylor Jemilo Chicago History Final The Union Stockyards: Chicago’s Fifth Star Beginning in the early 1860s the way of life in America was beginning to change at a very rapid pace. With tensions in the country growing due to various political struggles‚ a Civil War was nearly inevitable. When a war finally did break out in April of 1861 resources and a way to move those resources was needed more than ever before. One of the most necessary resources‚ food‚ was scarce to soldiers because
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In the early 1900’s many of those who immigrated to America experienced unfair wages and working/ living conditions. Tenement houses were crowded‚ dark‚ loud‚ hot‚ foul smelling‚ unhealthy‚ and there was no fresh air (Riis‚ 1999). The people living under these conditions‚ typically didn’t have a choice because it was the only thing within their budget. Workers within the meat-packing industry worked in unsafe and unhealthy conditions. Those who had a job at the Shirtwaist Factory also worked under
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Chapter seven then talks about the location of most meatpacking plants‚ in an urban city. Following that‚ Fast food nation‚ tells readers that Chicago was the meat capital of the world‚ at the time. Large meatpacking firms that employed around 40‚000 people and shipped meat all throughout the United States and Europe was headquartered there. Upton Sinclair wrote the book titled “The Jungle” in 1906 based on working conditions in the meatpacking industry of Chicago. After poor working conditions were
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countries. This book addresses some forms of bad corporate ethics and in terms of business and the social environment. For example Companies going as far as closing down an entire fast food restaurant or meatpacking plant to avoid the creation of unions is wrong. Also the treatment of workers in meatpacking plants is unacceptable. The story of Kenny Dobbins‚ an extremely loyal Monfort employee was injured at work‚ and on top of not paying his medical bills‚ Monfort tried to get rid of Kenny by making his
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the meat processing factories need to be changed. In this book‚ Schlosser takes a chapter to specifically look at how the meat is processed and what goes on in these meatpacking plants. One topic he spends some time on is the injuries and the danger of the jobs that these factory workers face. Schlosser claims that‚ "Meatpacking is now the most dangerous job in the
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began working in the meatpacking industry when men left to the army being paid at less salary and positioned in lower ranks. Throughout
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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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