(Sinclair 1906). The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, was intended to show the plight of immigrant workers in the meatpacking industry of Chicago. Sinclair wanted to show how capitalism had failed and that socialism was the only way to solve the problems of the American worker. However, the American public centered their concerns on the awful conditions that meat was processed and how unsanitary, contaminated, and rotten meat was making their way to American stores.
Sinclair was a true believer in socialism‘s basic idea of the nationalization of natural resources and utilities along with state ownership and an even distribution of wealth. More importantly, he believed in socialism’s classless society of people. His view of capitalism was …show more content…
They were tenement apartments and rented rooms built next to the stockyards and city dumps. Along with the housing area, there were acres of stockyards, slaughterhouses, and processing plants. Well known for their awful living and working conditions, the houses in Packingtown were built terribly and falling apart and known to have sink holes. Sinclair seems focuses on the setting of The Jungle and uses it as a metaphor for what he considered the failure of capitalism.
1 Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore in 1878, his family moved to Virginia where the Civil War caused them to lose most of their money and land. Sinclair 's father became an alcoholic. 1 His mother wanted him to become a minister, but at age five he had already showed a passion for writing. He was educated in New York City where he went to school and college. His family had moved to New York City and he attended Columbia University. While at Columbia, he began to sell his stories to magazines. Read mostly by working-class …show more content…
Some historians believe that the single most important turning point in the progressive movement was the assassinations of President William McKinley in 1901. Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901 after serving as Vice President Under McKinley. 1 As president, Roosevelt brought on several progressive reforms. In 1903 he persuaded Congress to establish a new cabinet-level department to increase the federal government’s control over the actions of business and to monitor labor relations. At the state and local level, laws such as initiative, referendum, and recall were passed to give citizens more say in their
Sinclair was a true believer in socialism‘s basic idea of the nationalization of natural resources and utilities along with state ownership and an even distribution of wealth. More importantly, he believed in socialism’s classless society of people. His view of capitalism was …show more content…
They were tenement apartments and rented rooms built next to the stockyards and city dumps. Along with the housing area, there were acres of stockyards, slaughterhouses, and processing plants. Well known for their awful living and working conditions, the houses in Packingtown were built terribly and falling apart and known to have sink holes. Sinclair seems focuses on the setting of The Jungle and uses it as a metaphor for what he considered the failure of capitalism.
1 Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore in 1878, his family moved to Virginia where the Civil War caused them to lose most of their money and land. Sinclair 's father became an alcoholic. 1 His mother wanted him to become a minister, but at age five he had already showed a passion for writing. He was educated in New York City where he went to school and college. His family had moved to New York City and he attended Columbia University. While at Columbia, he began to sell his stories to magazines. Read mostly by working-class …show more content…
Some historians believe that the single most important turning point in the progressive movement was the assassinations of President William McKinley in 1901. Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901 after serving as Vice President Under McKinley. 1 As president, Roosevelt brought on several progressive reforms. In 1903 he persuaded Congress to establish a new cabinet-level department to increase the federal government’s control over the actions of business and to monitor labor relations. At the state and local level, laws such as initiative, referendum, and recall were passed to give citizens more say in their