Upton Sinclair's Response To The Jungle

The jungle Even though The jungle by Upton Sinclair published 1906, was very influential in bringing some of the very famous meat regulation but it was not the initial goal of the book. The book’s initial goal was to expose the indignity people face, in particularly immigrants and the harsh conditions in which they had to work. The jungle was very instrumental in the reform of the packing industry and generated a huge public outcry that led to the new federal governments’ food safety laws. However, from my perspective, Upton Sinclair’s goal in writing the book was not to generate outcry, rather he was trying to show the general working conditions of people in the meat-packing industry and all other big industrial corporation and he was demonstrating capitalism is the root of the such misery. Throughout his book Sinclair reveals many shocking issues such as diseases, people missing fingers due to the environment they were working in, contaminated food being processed. Sick animals being slaughtered. The conditions of families and working kids at the ages where they shouldn't be working. Throughout the book the main characters
It was supposed to be, on the small pay and longer hours of work. His desired target was to solve the high demand of labor for cheaper and unhuman treatment by the big corporations and big boss. Its ambitious indentation was at a corrupted political system that aims to solve nothing. At one point Sinclair address to modern corporation as a slave driver with disregard to the outside color or race. And he called the modern warfare as a wage slave. “Always on the verge of starvation and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-time slave drivers; under such circumstances, immorality is exactly as inevitable, and as prevalent, as it is under the system of chattel slavery." (Chapter 10, pg.