USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry. 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.

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: -Sinclair was considered a muckraker, a journalist who exposed corruption in government and business. In 1904, Sinclair had spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason.

Detailed explanation-4: -After writing a few unsuccessful novels, Upton Sinclair became famous in 1906 after The Jungle exposed the conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry. The Jungle was a historical fiction exposé of the working conditions endured by the immigrant laborers in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.