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The Jungle
The Jungle
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It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija’s broad shoulders—it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself.
Upton Sinclair's 1906 exposé of Chicago's meatpacking industry, told through the eyes of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant whose American dream collapses under the brutal realities of industrial capitalism. Originally serialized in the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, Sinclair's unflinching depiction of unsanitary conditions in the meat industry shocked the American public and directly led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. A landmark of American muckraking literature.
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