The Workplace In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

Working is never as easy as it seems to be. People from the years before us have struggled with work labor as well. Whether if it’s from looking for jobs, job layoffs, or unfair management, labor and business have always been difficult. In the story “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair employment is something they do not play around with. Sinclair states that “...Monday morning they will every one of them have to be in their places.. If one of them be a minute late, he will be docked an hour’s pay, and if he be many minutes late, he will apt to find his brass check turned to the wall, which will send him out to join the hungry mob that waits every morning at the gates of the packing houses, from six o’clock until nearly half-past eight”(16), jobs were taken very seriously, and since there was people who were fighting to have the same job as you, they did not care for you or your job. …show more content…
People are trying to survive in such hard times, and you can not move forward without corruption or making it hard on someone else. Upton illustrates that Marija takes the position of a woman named Mary Dennis who had been working there for over 15 years, and had a young boy who was cripple and epileptic, Mary was starting to get sick and would be heard coughing all day at work. “The forelady had to come up to a certain standard herself, and could not stop for sick people, Jadvyga explained. The fact that Mary had been there so long had not made any difference to her…”(51). Employers did not care for employees, they knew they were replaceable at work and did not have to think twice about firing somebody because of personal issues. Employers only cared about what was best for there company and themselves, no one else really mattered for