Urbanization In The Jungle

The Jungle The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a book about a family of immigrants who came to America to try and form a better life for themselves and their family. The book mainly focused on the pain parts of Urbanization and the struggles that each main problems came with. For example, crime and corruption was one of the main struggles of urbanization at the time. The government inspector at the factory Jurgis works at dosen’t stop the bad, rotten meat from going through to processing. Many people could get seriously sick or die. ( Sinclair 38) The inspector is using his higher power to not say anything about the bad meat, the more meat he does not use, the more it could get taken out of his pay.
Ona confessed to Jurgis that her boss Phil Connor, harassed her and pleaded to become his mistress. Later on she confessed that Connor raped her. (Sinclair …show more content…
Jurgis tries to get Marija out of the brothel, but she tells him that she can not leave. The brothel has her addicted to morphine and so far in debt that it is most likely that she will never be able to pay it off. Which means that she will forever be stuck there. ( Sinclair 315) This happened often for the time being. It is an example no doubt of crime. Brothels are very much so illegal, but also keeping your workers drugged and constantly in debt could not only be looked at as an example of rape, but it could be looked at as using power to your advantage. Most of these girls in these brothels are young. And they are just getting their lives ripped away from them. They were most likely trying to get money to support their families, but none of that money would ever make it to them anyways. All the money that they would make just goes straight to whoever the boss was. Sometimes the boss would even be a police officer. The majority of the time the girl's innocence are also their