The Jungle by Upton Sinclair depicts the horrors and hardships faced by immigrants and the working class during the industrial revolution.Sinclair focuses on the working conditions of employees of a meat factory. These struggles with working conditions and disease are considered quite inhumane by modern standards. The new spike in demand for goods across America during the industrial revolution created factories, which dehumanised workers in an effort to increase profits. Sinclair describes the back breaking work and the effects of it on the workers health and spirits. He describes their experience as the most difficult kind of work that “wore out the most powerful men in a few years”. He also describes the many diseases and disabilities such
