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    The chapter on “USDA Government Inspected” showed the implementation and development of the Meat Inspection Act. There was a shock that shattered the calm with the publication of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (Davidson & Lytle, 2005, p. 235). The discontent of the time was the greed of big businesses. Concern centered on how the meat packing industry operated and distributed the meats for consumption. “Sinclair told of men in cooking rooms who fell into vats and, after being cooked for days,…

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    immigration. Workplace safety, treatment of immigrants, and child labor were events that changed America as a whole the worst way possible. Numerous of areas in the United States were settled as a trading post and transportation routes. As the industries and technology improved, cities in America became the center of products. Cities grew in populations and in size. Countries became urban, and created a new transportation system. This event is where urbanization took place. Urbanization was…

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    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…

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    York before he became a vice president. Theodore Roosevelt accomplished to fix the monopolies and the meat packing industries as a president and ready America for the war. One of Roosevelt achievement was the prosecution of monopolies. Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust as his weapon to stopping the monopolies. “ The American Sugar Refining Company controlled 98 percent of the sugar industry”( ushistory 1). Monopolies were really dangerous because there would be mostly coming from one…

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    In the article “The most Dangerous jobs” by Eric Schlosser, we here the story of a man who worked at a meat packing company. Kind and loyal to a fault, Kenny Dobbins gave arm and leg to the company, and turned down the unionized work force based on the things he heard from his supervisor. The company then proceeded to use him up until he had nothing left to give; then throw him away without so much as a warning. Union’s should be mandatory in meatpacking operations because, it provides a way…

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    does not understand what he is being told so he is told in a manner anyone could understand, “There is shit in the meat.” The company CEO sends Don on a trip to the town of Cody, Colorado the home to the one and only meat packer of the Mickey’s “Big One” burger patties and the location of the first Mickey’s Fast Food Restaurant.…

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    working conditions in the country’s meatpacking industry. Truthfully, Sinclair illustrated how capitalism destroyed one family’s American Dream, chronicled…

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    Jungle and Food, Inc. set out to reveal the food industry and they have changed the what people know ever since. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906 with a clear purpose, to expose the American meatpacking industry and the lives or immigrants living in the U.S. He wanted people to know what was really going on behind the scenes and the grisly conditions the workers worked in. Sinclair interviewed various people to get the inside story of the industry and he even went undercover as a worker…

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    Symbolism In The Jungle

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    In the novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the author criticizes the meatpacking industry during the nineteenth century and uses vivid imagery to display horrible living conditions of the people in that time. The Jungle was a book that truly showed the the migrant workers in the factories who were in poor working conditions and put anything in meat as long as they did not get in trouble. This brought many unsanitary conditions in and outside the factories. In the novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair…

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    million dollars to these progressive reforms: $600,000 to the meat packing industry $300,000 to Child labor $100,000 to Women's Right to vote. The first and the most critical cause I would give $600,000 dollars to would be reforms to the meat packing industry. This industry had few regulations. For example, “The meat would be shoveled into carts, and…

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