The Jungle. Upton Sinclair
The first event Sinclair incorporated into his novel was immigration. Immigration was happening all over the United States and in each city it happened the same way. Most all immigrants where forced to have their whole families work bad low paying dangerous factories jobs to just afford a run down house in the slums of their city. They where mistreated and used by the factory bosses. Some examples of this in Sinclair's novel are when Ona starts not coming home from work and Jurgis soon find out she was forced to sleep with the loading foreman at her plant. The other example is when Jurgis hurts his ankle and after being away from work for 3 months his boss refuses to take him back leaving him jobless. Immigrants had a very hard time starting in America and in many cases where mistreated at work, and all of this is depicted in Sinclair's novel.
The next event Sinclair wrote about in his novel was the working conditions at the meat and fertilizer factories. He had the most detail about the meat packaging plant. From the killing beds to just traveling to work in the dead of winter, work was gruesome. Jobs where not secure at all and you where always at risk to have a bad accident or even die on the job. Cleanliness...
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