of the meatpacking industry‚ became an enormous bestseller translated into seventeen languages within weeks of its publication in 1906. But while The Jungle has long been associated with food production‚ the book is actually a much broader critique of early twentieth-century business and labor practices in the rapidly growing cities of the United States. The Jungle is the story of Jurgis Rudkus and his family‚ Lithuanian immigrants who come to America to work in the meatpacking plants
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Taylor Jemilo Chicago History Final The Union Stockyards: Chicago’s Fifth Star Beginning in the early 1860s the way of life in America was beginning to change at a very rapid pace. With tensions in the country growing due to various political struggles‚ a Civil War was nearly inevitable. When a war finally did break out in April of 1861 resources and a way to move those resources was needed more than ever before. One of the most necessary resources‚ food‚ was scarce to soldiers because
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In the early 1900’s many of those who immigrated to America experienced unfair wages and working/ living conditions. Tenement houses were crowded‚ dark‚ loud‚ hot‚ foul smelling‚ unhealthy‚ and there was no fresh air (Riis‚ 1999). The people living under these conditions‚ typically didn’t have a choice because it was the only thing within their budget. Workers within the meat-packing industry worked in unsafe and unhealthy conditions. Those who had a job at the Shirtwaist Factory also worked under
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Chapter seven then talks about the location of most meatpacking plants‚ in an urban city. Following that‚ Fast food nation‚ tells readers that Chicago was the meat capital of the world‚ at the time. Large meatpacking firms that employed around 40‚000 people and shipped meat all throughout the United States and Europe was headquartered there. Upton Sinclair wrote the book titled “The Jungle” in 1906 based on working conditions in the meatpacking industry of Chicago. After poor working conditions were
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countries. This book addresses some forms of bad corporate ethics and in terms of business and the social environment. For example Companies going as far as closing down an entire fast food restaurant or meatpacking plant to avoid the creation of unions is wrong. Also the treatment of workers in meatpacking plants is unacceptable. The story of Kenny Dobbins‚ an extremely loyal Monfort employee was injured at work‚ and on top of not paying his medical bills‚ Monfort tried to get rid of Kenny by making his
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Good Recommendations The recommendations made by the Human Rights Watch group are good steps in increasing the safety for workers in the meat packing industry. Workers of any industry deserve to work in the safest work environment available and should be afforded to work with and use safe equipment and tools. They also should be taught to know the hazards involved with their taskings. Employers have a responsibility to ensure these elements of safety occur in the workplace. The problem is that
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began working in the meatpacking industry when men left to the army being paid at less salary and positioned in lower ranks. Throughout
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After examining 3 meatpacking plants‚ the Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that the U.S. is failing to protect that labor force. A meat industry official dismissed the group as "way off mark" in its 175-page report titled "Blood‚ Sweat and Fear: Workers ’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants." The American Meat Institute ’s said that they would need many pages to correct the "falsehoods and baseless claims." The Human Rights Watch report contends that workplace risks and exploitation‚ especially
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the meat processing factories need to be changed. In this book‚ Schlosser takes a chapter to specifically look at how the meat is processed and what goes on in these meatpacking plants. One topic he spends some time on is the injuries and the danger of the jobs that these factory workers face. Schlosser claims that‚ "Meatpacking is now the most dangerous job in the
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal‚ by Eric Schlosser. Perennial of HarperCollins Publishers‚ 2002. 383 pp.‚ $13.95. ³As American as a small‚ rectangular‚ hand-held‚ frozen‚ and reheated apple pie.² (p. 3) Far from being a run of the mill expose on calories and fat grams in fast food‚ Fast Food Nation is a hard-hitting critique of the industrialization of America¹s and‚ later‚ the world¹s food supply. The consequences of this industrialization have far-reaching effects
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