Jungle, The

Type

Book

Authors

Upton Sinclair

ISBN 13

9780451472557

Tags

anglais, english, classics, Political, Literary, littéraire, politique, industrie, pauvreté, exploitation, Lexile 1170L

Abstract

Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair.

Description

Upton Sinclair’s vivid depiction of the horrors of Chicago’s stockyards and slaughterhouses aroused such public indignation that a government investigation was called, eventually resulting in the passage of pure food laws. More than a hundred years later, The Jungle continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published.

Biblio Notes

Selected Bibliography page 401

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