This novel is about the life of immigrants moving to America Searching for the American dream. Upton Sinclair originally wrote this for a Socialist magazine to try to show the benefits of changing to a Socialist society, but it is not what the public gained from it. Upton Sinclair is quoted as saying “I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach,” because his novel did not get the reception he was looking for. The Jungle was first published in a Socialist magazine called “The Appeal to Reason” in 1905. It was later published as a standalone novel in 1906. The Jungle follows the life of Jurgis Rudkus and his family after they have immigrated from Lithuania to Chicago. The novel portrays the lives of immigrants and what
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It played a huge part in the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. This act states, “For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes” (Carpenter). The Jungle opened up the horrors that were going on behind the scenes in the meatpacking industry and while not all of what he wrote may be factual it was enough for a large enough outcry for change. There was a lot of false advertising used by the meatpacking industry as well as many others which is what Sinclair wanted to expose in his …show more content…
Many companies, such as Nike, in the US moved jobs overseas to save on costs and were getting away with sweatshops. The working conditions described in Sinclair’s work were very similar as to what is/was going on in these third world countries. After a while they started to get exposed by the media and now have tried to change their policies. This isn’t to say that big companies have completely stopped such terrible business practices, mainly because they know that people in those countries will work for just about anything, just like in the US during the Industrial Revolution, and they are trying to save and make as much money. Once these countries start to become more developed these sweatshops will start to become nonexistent because the citizens will have known better and similar types of regulations will be put into place. There is much debate here in the US about our minimum wage. Many people are trying to push for higher minimum wages. This is a major reason why jobs get pushed overseas. This also opens up another arena of how companies try to justify their reasons for leaving to go overseas. Companies will continue to try to get away with the cheapest methods so long as consumers keep buying their
It played a huge part in the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. This act states, “For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes” (Carpenter). The Jungle opened up the horrors that were going on behind the scenes in the meatpacking industry and while not all of what he wrote may be factual it was enough for a large enough outcry for change. There was a lot of false advertising used by the meatpacking industry as well as many others which is what Sinclair wanted to expose in his …show more content…
Many companies, such as Nike, in the US moved jobs overseas to save on costs and were getting away with sweatshops. The working conditions described in Sinclair’s work were very similar as to what is/was going on in these third world countries. After a while they started to get exposed by the media and now have tried to change their policies. This isn’t to say that big companies have completely stopped such terrible business practices, mainly because they know that people in those countries will work for just about anything, just like in the US during the Industrial Revolution, and they are trying to save and make as much money. Once these countries start to become more developed these sweatshops will start to become nonexistent because the citizens will have known better and similar types of regulations will be put into place. There is much debate here in the US about our minimum wage. Many people are trying to push for higher minimum wages. This is a major reason why jobs get pushed overseas. This also opens up another arena of how companies try to justify their reasons for leaving to go overseas. Companies will continue to try to get away with the cheapest methods so long as consumers keep buying their