Upton Sinclair

century, the United States transitioned toward production by craftsmanship, to industrial machinery. Although the rate of production grew tremendously, issues between the citizens became observable. The Jungle, a powerful and eye-opening novel by Upton Sinclair, shows how the meat-packing industry ran off corruption and “modern” slave work. The upper class, politicians and factory managers, took charge of the hideous environment the working class labored in. Throughout the story, Jurgis Rudkus,…

How did the muckrakers impact business and politics during the progressive era? Muckrakers were journalists whose goals were to expose corruption within businesses and to expose political leaders. There were significant muckrakers this time who gained fame for exposing corruption within our capitalist society and exposing the truth about how the government was running the United States of America. Muckrakers were also seen to be very outspoken and were often accused of disrupting the peace…

Napoleonic wars – Canning Since prehistoric times, humans have found multiple ways to make food last longer like drying, salting, smoking, and drying, but humanity has yet to find a method to preserve food in a state where it is nearly fresh, not until the late 1800s. The French directory, which was concerned about the military’s food supply because their soldiers were fighting in distant countries and are in constant need of rations, therefore, thinking that something had to be done in order…

The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair is a political fiction novel. In the Jungle, a Lithuanian family comes to America in hopes of achieving the American Dream, but instead finds many hardships in America. Jurgis and his family are poor, dying, and enduring a strenuous work load. Due to some of these hardships, Jurgis went from naïve in entrusting the capitol boss with his welfare to hostile in entrusting the capitol boss with his welfare. Jurgis entrusts his welfare with the capitol boss. The…

Sinclair was a type of journalist known as a ‘muckraker’, one who looks to specifically investigate and reveal abuses kept hidden during the gilded age. Sinclair set his eyes on the meatpacking industry with The Jungle, providing abhorrent descriptions of the conditions in which American food was kept. The novel caught the attention…

conditions of factories and steps have been taken in order to improve the quality and safety of food. Food and health advocates have made their impact on society by exposing the subpar quality of various corporations in which food is packaged. Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle produced a tale of what happened behinds closed doors of food manufacturing factories. In this story, he directs the attention of one man’s experience. This man shares details about how…

applies during hard times because as the law of nature states all countries experience hard times, but the only way to get yourself out of poverty was that “if you worked hard, and lived a sober and God-fearing life, success was bound to come to you” (Sinclair 10). It was tough that the only way to get promotions and get ahead of life was to be quite, follow orders, and demonstrate strong work values. If, and only if, workers demonstrate these values they will prosper in the great society that…

"Aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." These are words Upton Sinclair used to describe how he felt about the effectiveness of his novel The Jungle. While it is true that Sinclair was trying to use his work to persuade the public to change their political ideology, his novel still had a major effect on society. It may not have been in the way Sinclair intended, but The Jungle still holds a piece of the public’s heart today, holding testament to the menacing ways…

hardship all too well wrote the book: Upton Beall Sinclair. Sinclair was born in 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland into an extremely underprivileged and impoverished family who struggled with the impact of the civil war. Sinclair’s family was moved to New York when he was ten years old. His alcoholic father, whom ironically happened to be a liquor salesman, made the decision. There were two positive outcome of Sinclair’s troubling childhood: his intelligence…

give submission to the white race in that it was the only way Washington saw the negro surviving. In the early 1900s conditions for African Americans were gradually getting better. In Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, he stated that “Now he was going to be free, to tear off his shackles, to rise up and fight.” Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Jabber, 1906. 238.…