The Jungle and the Meatpacking Industry
Jul 1, 2020 ·
9m
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Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to shine a light on the treatment of immigrants in The United States. Instead, the public was more interested in the conditions of the meatpacking...
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Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to shine a light on the treatment of immigrants in The United States. Instead, the public was more interested in the conditions of the meatpacking factory where they worked. These conditions shocked the public and motivated the government to step in and pass legislation to regulate the industry.
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