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: -The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.