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The Jungle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by: Upton Sinclair

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780143039587
ISBN: 014303958X
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: March 28, 2006
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 46483
Studio: Penguin Classics

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Documenting the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the century, this centennial edition of The Jungle brings into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream.

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- A historical book that reformed the meat processing industry.
President Theodore Roosevelt had the meat industry investigated because of The Jungle while at the same time lecturing Sinclair against socialism. I find it unsettling the socialist lecturer in The Jungle and Henry George, (Progress & Poverty) promise almost the same results. I really hated the last chapter's talk of communal living which are called economies of cooperation in the book.
Let me not throw out the baby with the bath water. The Jungle is an excellent example of the stockyards in Chicago in that era. Immigrants and animals were living an endless nightmare of poverty, filth, & pain. In researching an article about our grandfather in Chicago newspaper archives on micro fiche frequently I found articles where all who ate in the same restaurant or from the same food market simply dropped dead in the same day or slowly & painfully over a couple days from food poisoning.
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- Life in the Laissez-Faire Jungle
Everyone has heard of this 1906 book, but few have read it all. It was not a muck-raking investigation into the meat processing industry, but a novel about an immigrant family that came to a big city (Chicago) and suffered from all possible problems (like a worst case scenario). Poverty, drugs, crime, and prostitution are not new problems.

A few pages in the book describe the workings of a meat processing plant. All too true, as the later investigations proved. The character (Jurgis) who worked there was later hospitalized, and found out where the market was for sub-standard goods: institutions where the consumers have no choice. There had been scandals about "embalmed beef" during the Spanish-American War.

The book is still as entertaining and educational today as it was when it was first published. Are things different today? Just read your newspapers. The last chapters are sometimes censored, ... Read More

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- Two great authors for the price of one!
The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of 'The Jungle' is worth buying for Eric Schlosser's foreword alone, let alone Upton Sinclair's gripping expose. As author of Fast Food Nation (which is a bit of 'The Jungle' of our time), Schlosser wastes no time in underlining how frighteningly similar Sinclair's meat-packing industry is today's fast-food empires.

Despite being eradicated through trust-busting, the monopolies have just expanded their influence by exploiting new technologies like television to hook customers when they're young. They've flourished like fat rats during the laissez-fare attitude of Reaganomics, continue to sell products known to be tainted, and are exploiting the many pitfalls of globalization. As a result, there are now even fewer special interests controlling the meat market than in 1905, Mexicans have replaced Lithuanians in the workplace, and obesity is wholesale worldwide.

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- An amazing exposé into immigrant life in the early 1900s
Although The Jungle is known primarily for its descriptions of the meat packing industry, this book is about much more. Sinclair brilliantly presents the life of a poor immigrant family searching for the American dream.

Jurgis experiences the highest levels of wealth as a politician and the lowest levels of poverty as a beggar. Although his repeated reversals of fortune are quite exaggerated, Sinclair effectively makes his point. He shows the huge gap between rich and poor and governmental corruption.

The last several chapters disappointingly lose the personal touch of Jurgi's experiences. Sinclair ends the novel with what amounts to direct socialist propaganda. It too certainly makes a convincing point (probably the main point Sinclair wanted to make), but it leaves the reader wanting a conclusion to Jurgi's character.

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