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“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.” ― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Many readers were most concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, based on an investigation he did for a socialist newspaper.

The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London called it, "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery.

"Sinclair was considered a muckraker, or journalist who exposed corruption in government and business. He first published the novel in serial form in 1905 in the Socialist newspaper, Appeal to Reason, between February 25, 1905, and November 4, 1905. In 1904, Sinclair had spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the newspaper. It was published as a book on February 26, 1906 by Doubleday and in a subscribers' edition.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 1, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 234 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1503331865
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1503331860
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.69 x 0.53 x 9.61 inches
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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." He is remembered for writing the famous line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it."

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I’m sure it’s a great story, but it looks like someone copied text into Notepad.
Just wondering if the book is printed strange, if I ordered a odd/cheap copy, or if this was how it was originally printed.... but I hate it. It’s slightly distracting. I’m sure I’ll get over it and enjoy the story but geez.
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Janet Eshenroder
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing writing
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2014
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Amazing writing. I'm not sure why this wasn't required reading when I was in school, or why I never was into reading classic novels in my younger years, but I'm glad I finally got around to reading "The Jungle." I can see why the book created such a stir.

This novel, written at the end of the gilded-age, shows the great divide created by unregulated capitalism, showing how workers and consumers can end up bearing the heavy burden, the real cost, of maintaining the lifestyles of the rich and powerful, how the American dream of working hard to succeed does not work when the cards are stacked against you.

Funny how some of these same problems are with us again. How easy it is to assume the free market can regulate itself, after generations of living in a regulated market. People seem to forget the first principle of business is to make a profit.

The ending was a weak point by today's standards. There was hope that socialism would address all the flaws of social inequity. Obviously, that never happened, though political changes were enacted to address some of the inequities. Socialism was a dream never realized and I'm not sure I'd want the author's final solution. It reminded me of Ayn Rand, escaping from Communism and seeing Capitalism as the ultimate system of perfection. The grass is always greener . . .

The theories of government never translate into practice with the lofty ideals or ethics of the philosophers who write about a perfect society. I doubt there is any system (including capitalism) that would be successful if not tempered to address the ways humans devise to scam the system.

What I found most interesting is the nation's current drift into a second gilded-age. It makes this a frightening powerful novel, a modern-day warning. I wish it was required reading.
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Logan Myerz
4.0 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2014
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I have read this book several times over the years although it's been awhile since my last reading so I thought I'd read it again. Upton Sinclair's vivid descriptions brings the Chicago Stockyards of the early 1900's to life. In the first two thirds of the book, the lives of an immigrant family are told....their hopes, dreams and experiences of coming to a new country where they don't speak the language yet struggle to find a better life. What they find is hardship, extreme poverty, swindles, back-breaking work for little pay and death. I came to really like the family that was the focus of the story but after I became emotionally involved, the story shifted to the political corruption in Chicago at the time and how the daily life of all Chicagoans was affected by graft, political favoritism and the rise to power of the unions. The last third of the book is devoted to speeches given by men of the new Socialist party that was trying to form in Chicago which I found to be rather boring because I was more interested in the life of the main character and what happens to him. You never find out his ultimate fate which I found frustrating but the book is a great read and beautifully illustrates early Chicago.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Book That Stands The Test Of Time
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2014
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This book was written over 100 years ago but is just as relevant today. At the time, while the story is about the desperate plight of the poor, people instead focused on the food safety issues and enacted laws to protect people from the tainted food being sold. Today as deregulation has been taking effect and social programs such as food stamps, welfare, and unemployment are being cut, people are again facing tainted food and starvation due to an inability to work.

This should be required reading so people may understand why these laws and programs were instituted in the first place to protect workers from corporate greed which goes wild when left unchecked.

At the end of the book the author envisions a day when automation will ease the lives of the worker and drop prices. I wonder if he would be shocked to find that while we have automation today and overall the worker's life is not quite so hard, prices have done nothing but rise and squeeze the working man. Also, the fact that the practices in the slaughter houses have changed very little in the past 100 years. It is only in the last few years that Temple Grandin made some inroads in making things easier for the cattle so they are less dangerous to handle and only a few places have accepted her methods. The description of the slaughter house in the recently published book "The Almond Tree" could have just as easily been the one described in "The Jungle".

It is a brutal book to read but is written so well the reader wants to know what will happen next and continues to read. Few books hold up this well over time, but the sad part is that so much of what is written is still true for so many workers today.
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Maria Brito
3.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Printing
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2023
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Like many others, I'm sure that they noticed the absolute impossibility to get through this book because of the print format. Oh. My. Goodness. I am normally able to read books easily, no problemo. I couldn't get three pages in without having to take a break. Not only are the first few chapters extremely difficult to get through, the formatting makes it worse. It feels like I'm reading an academic textbook rather than a fiction novel. I noticed that it was an on-demand print, which I did not notice AT ALL when buying the book. When it arrived, I just noticed how abnormally huge it was. Genuinely like the size of a sheet of paper basically, if not a bit smaller. That coupled with the super small font and spacing made it seem like I was spending more time trying to comprehend what I was reading than actually enjoying the book. I haven't finished the book-nor do I plan to. From what I've gathered, it's really about the meat-packing industry and its terrible treatment of immigrant workers. While Sinclair aimed to bring awareness to the horrendous conditions that the workers were in, he instead brought attention to the disgusting treatment and condition of the meat that they were eating.
That is all I wanted to say, happy reading (if you can...) !!!
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Professional Ed Resource
5.0 out of 5 stars Great classic
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024
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Beautiful presentation of a classic from the late 19th and early 20th century. Last @20 pages seems a socialist diatribe, but it’s part of its era, so appropriate.
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