How Are Meatpacking Houses Able To So Thoroughly Exploit Those Employed To Process The Meat
The Jungle (reading questions)
1. What is the significance of the title? What is the relationship between animals in the jungle? In this case, what has dehumanized the people throughout the novel into “beasts” engaged in a savage competitive struggle where the strong devour the vulnerable?
2. How are the meatpacking houses able to so thoroughly exploit those employed to process the meat? Why doesn't Jurgis and others simply quit and go to work for another company?
3. In what ways are the employees of the packing houses like the animals that are being slaughtered and processed? Do they have any rights or protections that can be called upon? What happens to an injured animal? An injured worker?
4. How does the novel address the role
1. What is the significance of the title? What is the relationship between animals in the jungle? In this case, what has dehumanized the people throughout the novel into “beasts” engaged in a savage competitive struggle where the strong devour the vulnerable?
2. How are the meatpacking houses able to so thoroughly exploit those employed to process the meat? Why doesn't Jurgis and others simply quit and go to work for another company?
3. In what ways are the employees of the packing houses like the animals that are being slaughtered and processed? Do they have any rights or protections that can be called upon? What happens to an injured animal? An injured worker?
4. How does the novel address the role