The family that Sinclair has the reader follow is that of Jurgis Rudkus. An immigrant family from Lithuania the author describes their life story during the nineteen hundreds. During that time period the meatpacking factories were the only places an immigrant could find a job. Although the pay was not good some families would be able to survive with everyone working and the Rudkus family almost does.

Sinclair’s main character Jurgis is one of the men working in the slaughter yard at the meat house. He describes the h

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Jurgis Rudkus, Drug Administration, Socialism Jurgis, Sinclair’s Jungle, Democracy Sinclair, Chicago Historically, Overall Jungle, Upton Sinclair, killing beds, scraps meat,