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Book about the meatpacking industry5/27/2023 Public outcry led to reforms in federal food safety laws, such as the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) and the Federal Meat Inspection Act (1906). Most who read Sinclair’s work were more concerned with the health violations in the meat packing industry than with the lives of the workers. The novel was first published serially in the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason in 1905 before being published as a book in 1906. Before writing The Jungle, he spent several weeks working in the Chicago meatpacking plants featured prominently in the novel. As an outspoken socialist, Sinclair hoped to shed light on the harsh living and working conditions facing immigrants at the time. The Jungle was a 1906 novel by American journalist and muckraker Upton Sinclair. Use this Primary Source to have students evaluate muckrakers and their exposure of the problems that stemmed from the rise of big business, urbanization, and immigration.
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