Muckraker Upton Sinclair's The Gilded Age
The Muckraker Upton Sinclair observed a meat packing industry in Chicago. When this was done he realized what horrible working habits and dirty working stations they had. To put an end to this, Sinclair had written a book called, The Jungle. This book exposed what was happening in these meat factories such as, blood everywhere on the floor and the stench of dead animals. The factories were an unsafe place for children filled with machines everywhere. Children and even adults get hurt every day. The gilded age has its own era in time. “The gilded age is a time between the Civil War and World War 1 during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly.” The gilded age was about around the time of 1873. The American Dream was to become rich
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Only to find the disappointment of discrimination, no housing, jobs of little or no pay, and working under life threating conditions. Sinclair made the people and government aware of the filthy contaminant conditions. “While Sinclair’s main target was the industry’s appealing labor conditions, the reading public was most out raged at the disgusting filth and garbage in American food.” Instead of finding the American dream they found greedy bosses, conmen, and corrupted politicians. Susan B. Antony was a great help when it came to the child labor, and keeping the children home. As well big bissneusesmen were very greedy and put on harsh condition when immigrants had long hours and no pay in the factories. “In a sense, labors are nothing more than pieces of meat themselves-stripped of his identity, each laborers merely a mass of muscle that, by helping the meat-packing plant run, factors into general elation of consumption. Additionally, the crowded animal pens of the stock yards symbolizes packingtown’s crowded living quarters for workers. With almost no personal space or privacy for individual, Jurgis and his family and dehumanized by their accommodations. Similar to an animal, Jurgis exist, from a severe capitalist point of view, only to carry out his function at the meat-packaging
Only to find the disappointment of discrimination, no housing, jobs of little or no pay, and working under life threating conditions. Sinclair made the people and government aware of the filthy contaminant conditions. “While Sinclair’s main target was the industry’s appealing labor conditions, the reading public was most out raged at the disgusting filth and garbage in American food.” Instead of finding the American dream they found greedy bosses, conmen, and corrupted politicians. Susan B. Antony was a great help when it came to the child labor, and keeping the children home. As well big bissneusesmen were very greedy and put on harsh condition when immigrants had long hours and no pay in the factories. “In a sense, labors are nothing more than pieces of meat themselves-stripped of his identity, each laborers merely a mass of muscle that, by helping the meat-packing plant run, factors into general elation of consumption. Additionally, the crowded animal pens of the stock yards symbolizes packingtown’s crowded living quarters for workers. With almost no personal space or privacy for individual, Jurgis and his family and dehumanized by their accommodations. Similar to an animal, Jurgis exist, from a severe capitalist point of view, only to carry out his function at the meat-packaging