USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. Before the turn of the 20th century, a major reform movement had emerged in the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Upton Sinclair was a famous novelist and social crusader from California, who pioneered the kind of journalism known as “muckraking.” His best-known novel was “The Jungle” which was an expose of the appalling and unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Muckraking is using deception to uncover scandalous information. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is considered an example of muckraking fiction because although it is a fictitious story, the author gathered some information about the meatpacking industry by working at the Chicago slaughterhouses in the early 1900s.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Jungle is a 1906 work of narrative fiction by American muckraker novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair’s primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States.