The Jungle | Literary Qualities
Sinclair's expose of Chicago's meatpacking industry produced an immediate decrease in American meat consumption and soon led to the passage of stricter laws regulating the food industry. As an agent of reform, The Jungle fit squarely into the tradition of muckraking journalism, an outgrowth of the progressive movement that dominated American cultural and political spheres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An adjunct to the "trust-busting" fervor that drove political activists to fight for legal restraints against corporate monopolies, muckraking strove to...
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