The Jungle
Novel
By: Upton Sinclair
Date: 1906
Source: Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906. Available online at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair/TheJungle/ (accessed May 23, 2003).
About the Author: Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) campaigned for social reform for most of his ninety-year lifetime. He excelled in studies at an early age and entered City College of New York in 1892. After joining the Socialist Party a decade later, he embarked upon a distinguished, controversial career in muckraking. His most famous exposé, The Jungle (1906), investigated the Chicago meatpacking industry and led to passage of the Meat-Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Sinclair wrote more than two thousand published works and established himself as the quintessential...
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