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| Introduction | ||
| A Note on the Text | ||
| The Text of The Jungle | 1 | |
| The Author in his Own Words | 331 | |
| Excerpts form the Appeal to Reason Version of The Jungle | 331 | |
| Sinclair and Sentimentalism | 331 | |
| An Alternate Ending | 332 | |
| The Early Life of a Muckraker | 345 | |
| What Life Means to Me | 348 | |
| What Socialism Means to Me | 353 | |
| Art and Propaganda | 354 | |
| Contemporary Perspectives on the Meatpacking Industry | 357 | |
| Interview with P. D. Armour | 357 | |
| Portrait of a Beef Baron | 362 | |
| The Beef Trust | 365 | |
| The Perfection of Capitalism | 371 | |
| Cruelty to Animals | 374 | |
| A Packer's Rebuttal | 376 | |
| Division of Labor in the Meatpacking Industry | 380 | |
| Social and Economic Implications of the Division of Labor | 381 | |
| Living Conditions and the Immigrant Worker | 388 | |
| From Lithuania to the Chicago Stockyards - An Autobiography | 388 | |
| Immigrant Wages and Family Budgets | 396 | |
| Housing Conditions in Chicago, Ill.: Back of the Yards | 407 | |
| From The Social Problems at the Chicago Stock Yards | 415 | |
| Immigrant Women and Prostitution | 419 | |
| The "Poor Man's Club": Social Functions of the Urban Working-Class Saloon | 423 | |
| Slaughterhouse Humor | 427 | |
| Historical Studies | 428 | |
| Market Conditions and the Beef Trust | 428 | |
| Racial and Ethnic Divisions in the Slaughterhouses | 431 | |
| Packingtown's Women Workers and Labor Resistance | 441 | |
| Muckraking, Progressivism, and the Pure Food and Drug Law | 445 | |
| The Extension of Federal Power | 459 | |
| The Packing Industry in the Ecosystem | 465 | |
| Back to The Jungle: A View from the Twenty-first Century | 475 | |
| What Jack London Says of The Jungle | 483 | |
| The Jungle | 485 | |
| The Chicago Scandals: The Novel Which Is Making History | 487 | |
| Jurgis's Conversion | 490 | |
| Sinclair's Documentary Strategy | 493 | |
| Gender in The Jungle | 497 | |
| The Development of The Jungle | 503 | |
| The Ironies of Progressive Era Authorship | 512 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 523 |
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Matthew Thouin
reviewed The Jungle on June 14, 2008
The Jungle
Whenever I've asked someone if they have read The Jungle, and if they have not read it, they always respond, "isn't that about the meat packing industry?". I think that response is exactly what the author was trying to point out is wrong with his society at the time.
It is true that the main character of the book at one point goes to work in a meat packing plant, and its disgusting, and when the book was published apparently the FDA was created as a result, or something. The problem is, though, that this book is not about the meat packing industry- the book is about the plight of a poor immigrant family in Chicago, and about the plight of poor people in the country in general at that time. Sinclair is trying to bring light to the disgusting ways in which people in his time were forced to live, the way they were manipulated, ripped off, neglected and sometime even killed by the very community that profited from their cheap labor. Its an incredible book, and if you read it keep in mind that the atrocities that really occur in this book surround the way that these people were held down no matter what they did. I think that Upton Sinclair would be saddened to know, and maybe he did know, that the only thing that changed as a result of this beautifully written pro-socialist novel is that the middle class now has healthy meat products.
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