Sinclair, "The Upton Jungle"

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"Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, originally serialized in 1905 and published as a book the next year, was the single most notable work from the age of "Muckraking" progressive journalism in the early years of this century. Although presented in the form of a novel, its intent was essentially journalistic; it is a rather thinly fictionalized account of conditions among immigrant workers in the Chicago meat packing industry just after the turn of the century.

The storm of public reaction which followed the publication of The Jungle, with its revelations of shockingly unsanitary conditions in the packing houses, was directly responsible for the enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Sinclair, 1981, p. v). It must be recognized that Sinclair's actual intent in writing the book was much more sweeping than to call for ..."

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