Meatpacking

kept a good job, and was always moving. After graduating in college in 1897, he focused on writing, and in 1904, went undercover to work at a meatpacking plant to research his novel The Jungle. From 1917 to the 1920s, he was a part of the socialist party, a main idea of the book. Most of the things in his life, specifically the alcoholic father, Meatpacking, and socialist party, are very prevalent in the book, and after researching, you can see why they were to him. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair…

Tobacco Trust and a Beef Trust. According to Eric Matthew Schlosser, an American journalist and author known for investigative journalism, with his well-known book called Fast Food Nation, “in 1917, at the height of the Beef Trust, the five largest meatpacking company-Armour, Swift, Morris, Wilson and Cudahy- controlled about 55 percent of the market. As consequence, government official believed that the concentrated economic power posed a grave threat to American democracy” (Schlosser 476).…

cutting. Critically, he watches the specialists' conditions inside. Schlosser says meatpacking is most hazardous occupation in America. A standout amongst the most perilous parts of the occupation are the blades individuals utilization to make slices each a few seconds. Numerous regularly inadvertently cut themselves or somebody around them. Schlosser scrutinizes the "IBP transformation" for perilous conditions meatpacking laborers go up against every day. Harm rates are specifically connected…

1900s is a country flooded with problems and issues threatening the prosperity of the country. Some of these issues include deforestation, the fight for women’s rights, the continuation of child labor, and the unsanitary findings found within the meatpacking industry. Earlier this year, my Aunt Bessie generously awarded me one million dollars to spend on three different progressive reform groups of my choice. After deep thought and careful consideration, I have decided to divide the money…

As a race, humans are constantly coming up with different ideas. Whether it is for different inventions, ways of life, or writings, the human race is constantly changing, thinking, creating, and inspiring. Although there is have been numerous changes since the creation of mankind, every once and awhile similarities in cultures and ideas can be spotted. In The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) and Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser), there are aspects of civilization, cultural diffusion, and even innovative…

liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes” (Carpenter). The Jungle opened up the horrors that were going on behind the scenes in the meatpacking industry and while not all of what he wrote may be factual it was enough for a large enough outcry for change. There was a lot of false advertising used by the meatpacking industry as well as many others which is what Sinclair wanted to expose in his…

on the outskirts of Chicago leaving small amounts of grass for pigs to eat and how old warehouses were being abandoned for newer ones that refrigerated the meat. Then Cronon followed up with the notion that companies were making money out of meatpacking and slaughtering by entailing how Chicago pig meat packers overtook Cincinnati pig meat packers, mentioning the “growing oligopoly” of the “Big Four”, and how farmers depend on Chicago. Therefore, Cronon’s notions were logical because they…

companies, but there are other people such as myself that agree on many of Schlosser’s points. A few points that I agree with Schlosser are the working conditions that minors and immigrants have to work in, the mystery in the mystery meat, and the meatpacking industry. Schlosser loves to talk about how bad the working conditions are for the workers. Most of the workers are either teenagers or immigrants that speak english as their second language. In Eric Schlosser’s, Fast Food Nation,…

young couple that fell in love in Lithuania and came to America to start a new life. This shows they're adventurous. Once they moved they quickly found jobs in meatpacking industry, where as others could not. Jurgis is a hardworking man that only wants to support his family in anyway possible. He works long, strenuous hours at the meatpacking plant. Ona is a kindhearted mother and mainly stays home to help with her children. They are both very welcoming to other immigrants and are also concerned…

hours and in dangerous situations. The African American slaves toiled in the fields for long, hot hours to often be rewarded by beatings and humiliations if their master or his overseer did not approve of the work. The immigrant worker at the meatpacking facility worked long hours under dangerous conditions for minimal pay. Both groups, even after the Emancipation Proclamation, a document abolishing slavery, were still enslaved. No matter that Frederick Douglass believed that freedom for all…