The one who is wins is the the one who sinks its teeth into the victim. In most cases, the predator wins in the wild nature around us. In the book, The Jungle the same concept applies to our human race.The Jungle is a story of the life of an immigrant worker, Jurgis and his family. Jurgis is a strong man, strong built and ready to work to support his growing family. When there was a population boom in the United States, the demand for food skyrocketed. Our predators in this book is the rich owners of the factories and the rest of the population falls into the category of the limitless workers who are literally dying to work for them. The owners are all too happy to enjoy having endless workers lined up for the spots of the workers who have
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“The worker of a union free workplace has the constant risk of a firing due to no apparent reason which increases the fear driven into the workers of that factory or company” (American Journal of Public Health 1). The boss rises and his servants are at his command. No one likes being fired but being fired for no real reason or that in the boss 's mind things that fresh meat will be faster, causes panic to arise in the workers. When the idea of labor Unions comes up in the Jungle, Jurgis confused on the concept like most people who had first heard the new idea of protection from being fired for the wrong reasons (Sinclair 20). Jurgis along with countless others can and did benefit greatly when Labor Unions were enacted. The safety from the boss’ control saves the workers from the greed for money that the head of company sees instead of the damage caused from wrong …show more content…
For a second you are safe, you’re okay. That feeling goes away with the amount that you see on the check, for all that that’s all I get? Labor Unions were also a provide that you were not severely underpaid for the hours spent in the labor lines for a few sad dollars. Since the idea was to make the most money, the boss would give the money to themselves and the leftovers went to the beaten workers. The pay you can imagine did not help the starving children, yet no one really cared (Dryburgh 19.)The main person in your life was yourself and for the head, it was the same. The predators survived as the prey slowly starved to death from the lack of support given to supply food. “70 dollars a month-which ought to be sufficient for the support of a family of twelve” (Sinclair 39). That was all Jurgis’ family got a month and in their minds it was okay, a couple days without food was not bad, they could do that. They soon found out that could not supply them. There of course was no one to care, they were barely taking care of their own families and the bosses did not want to make less of
“The worker of a union free workplace has the constant risk of a firing due to no apparent reason which increases the fear driven into the workers of that factory or company” (American Journal of Public Health 1). The boss rises and his servants are at his command. No one likes being fired but being fired for no real reason or that in the boss 's mind things that fresh meat will be faster, causes panic to arise in the workers. When the idea of labor Unions comes up in the Jungle, Jurgis confused on the concept like most people who had first heard the new idea of protection from being fired for the wrong reasons (Sinclair 20). Jurgis along with countless others can and did benefit greatly when Labor Unions were enacted. The safety from the boss’ control saves the workers from the greed for money that the head of company sees instead of the damage caused from wrong …show more content…
For a second you are safe, you’re okay. That feeling goes away with the amount that you see on the check, for all that that’s all I get? Labor Unions were also a provide that you were not severely underpaid for the hours spent in the labor lines for a few sad dollars. Since the idea was to make the most money, the boss would give the money to themselves and the leftovers went to the beaten workers. The pay you can imagine did not help the starving children, yet no one really cared (Dryburgh 19.)The main person in your life was yourself and for the head, it was the same. The predators survived as the prey slowly starved to death from the lack of support given to supply food. “70 dollars a month-which ought to be sufficient for the support of a family of twelve” (Sinclair 39). That was all Jurgis’ family got a month and in their minds it was okay, a couple days without food was not bad, they could do that. They soon found out that could not supply them. There of course was no one to care, they were barely taking care of their own families and the bosses did not want to make less of