Meat packing industry

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…

probably one of the most demanded and high-paying jobs where employees are highly skilled. As time passed, the meatpacking business became modernized, in which employees with skill are no longer needed. Follow McDonalds’ footstep, the meatpacking industry started to integrate the factory assemble line in their system and it resulted in the firing of hundreds of workers. With this new system, each worker stood in spot along the line performing the same task over and over again during an eight…

The Packers were continually starting such plans they had what they called boneless hams, which were all the incidentals of pork stuffed into housings; and California hams, which were the shoulders, with huge knuckle joints, and about all the meat cut out; and favor cleaned hams, which were made of the most seasoned swines, whose skins were so substantial and coarse that nobody would get them-that is, until the point that they had been cooked and hacked fine and named head cheddar! It was…

The two texts, from Uptain Siclair “The Jungle” (1906) and Eric Schlosser “Fast Food Nation” (2011) report the abomination that happen in the meatpacking industry in the United States. Upton Sinclair is an American writer of nearly 100 books, in 1906 became famous for his novel “The Jungle” which describe the conditions of meatpacking industry in US. On the other hand Eric Schlosser was a journalist and became famous for his book “Fast Food Nation”. Nevertheless, except the subject, those two…

The documentary What the Health? , directed by Kip Andersen, is an exposé on the pharmaceutical and meat industry, specifically showing that they have government intervention which the public is unaware of. A revealing moment in the film is at 37 minutes in, when attention is drawn to the slaughterhouses located in Duplin County, North Carolina. As noted,…

The Inevitable Trap Jurgis is trapped with no way to escape, destined to a life of misery and distress. His ignorance and lack of critical Chicago street skills blend together to construct an impeccable tomb of agony. His naivety and his illiteracy in finance pave the path to poverty. He is extremely gullible, believing the lively salesmen who guarantee the happiness of any customer. He believes the house advertisement which shows thousands of happy customers and the low monthly payments.…

The novel showed America the problems with the meat industry. How unsanitary and disgusting things were in the meat they ate every day. This book helped establish the Pure Food and Drug Act as well as the Meat Inspection Act. As impactful as these acts were for the food they did nothing for the workers. The workers had to figure out how to protect themselves. The working class had little education, no money and zero political influence. The only way to change their circumstances would be to…

things. The purpose of it was that the food industry does not want people out there to know what they are eating and how they are making the foods. Also, on who's making it and what labels they have on the foods. A lot of illegal immigrants are the ones that are meat packing. Meat packing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the U.s. As it's a dangerous job done by them, the immigrants are getting deported. The Government is dominated by the industries it is supposed to be regulating. More than…

enormously. During the 1900’s the working conditions of the meat-packing industry were very harsh. Many workers were injured and many were even killed. Countless Americans at this time were not aware of the terrible conditions the workers were going through. Along with this, Americans were also not aware of the lies the meat-packing plants were telling them. Upton Sinclair wrote the novel The Jungle to expose the conditions of the meat-packing plants, as well as to change the conditions…

Chicago’s Packingtown, the residential district next to the stockyards and packing plants, for 7 weeks. He posed as a worker and went into the packing plants to gain firsthand knowledge of the life and work in Packingtown. After the 7 weeks he went home to New Jersey and shut himself up in a small cabin and wrote for 9 months. Sinclair’s book was titled The Jungle to reflect his view of the cruelty he saw in the meat-packing industries. The story was based on Jurgis Rudkis, a young man who…