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: -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-3: -One of the writers of this time was Upton Sinclair, who wrote the novel The Jungle.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. Because of the public response, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906, and conditions in American slaughterhouses were improved.

Detailed explanation-5: -America’s Most Famous Novel About Bad Meat Was Actually About Immigrant Labor Abuses. “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach, ” Upton Sinclair famously wrote of his novel, The Jungle.