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Author: Upton Sinclair
First Published: 1906
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: Early twentieth century
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
Subjects: Factories, Family or family life, Politics, Socialism, Twentieth century, American Dream, Chicago, Poverty or poor people, Immigration or emigration, Adultery, Politicians, Working class, Tuberculosis, Unions or unionism, Fraud, Meat, Sanitation
Locales: Chicago, IL, Lithuania

Places Discussed

*Chicago. Midwestern American city to which many immigrants, mostly eastern European, flocked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to find work in the meat-packing industry. A major railroad terminus, Chicago had a brisk economy, but its wealth was unevenly distributed. The captains of industry exploited the workers, who worked under appalling conditions for paltry wages, swelling the owners’ bank accounts.

*Lithuania. Small eastern European country on the Baltic Sea from which Jurgis Rudkus, the novel’s protagonist, emigrates hoping...

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