A Lithuanian immigrant family is ground down by the meatpacking industry of Chicago's stockyards. A muckraking novel whose scenes of filth and exploitation drove real food-safety reform.
Books mentioned in The Jungle (1)
Wealth Against Commonwealth by Henry Demarest Lloyd: “Ten years ago Henry D. Lloyd told all the truth about the Standard Oil Company in his Wealth versus Commonwealth; and the book was allowed to die”
Books that mention The Jungle (2)
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “The Jungle tells the story of the young couple and their extended family as they immigrate to Chicago in pursuit of plentiful jobs, decent wages, and the fulfillment of the American dream.”
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn: “Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, published in 1906, brought the conditions in the meatpacking plants of Chicago to...attention”