Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices. Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair. Upton Sinclair’s vivid depiction of the horrors of Chicago’s stockyards and slaughterhouses aroused such public indignation that a government investigation was called, eventually resulting in the passage of pure food laws. More than a hundred years later, The Jungle continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published. Includes an Introduction by Alicia Mischa Renfroe and an Afterword by Dr. Barry Sears
The Jungle
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Author: Sinclair, Upton
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780451472557
Details:
Author: Sinclair, Upton
Brand: Signet
Color: Multicolor
Edition: Revised ed.
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Pages: 416
Release Date: 03-03-2015
Part Number: 0451472551
Package Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780451472557
