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: -In the book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair he described the life of a struggling family try to work and stay alive in the filth. The working conditions in the factories were unsafe, unsanitary and people made little. The purpose of this book was for people to become socialist other than capitalist.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Jungle was written at a time when the United States was in the throes of industrialization. Working-class immigrants to the United States had limited employment choices outside of factory jobs with often terrible working conditions.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Sinclair reportedly lamented, “I aimed at the public’s heart, and I hit it in the stomach.”16 Inside the plants, workers faced constant wage cuts, production line speedup, injuries and disease, and instant dismissal and blacklisting if they protested conditions.