The Jungle by Upton Sinclair changed the history of Chicago, the largest city of the meat packing industry. The book represents the lives of many immigrants who arrived to America to find the American dream, but as they experience the hardships of labor, discrimination and corruption, poverty took o...
Though it is often believed that the meat reform began with the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle in 1906, Kolko argues that it really began decades earlier. ... So though technically there were efforts made by companies to quality control their products, prior to Upton Sinclair's discovery, the laws were not taken seriously until after The Jungle was published. ... This progressive time period encourage the public to voice their opinion and fight for their rights to clean food and once President Roosevelt read Sinclair's The Jungle their fight got a lot easier. ...