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Uncovering Truth: Upton Sinclair and The Jungle

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  1. Progressive Journalism • Focus on: Corruption and social injustice • Raise the consciousness of America • Muckrakers • Upton Sinclair and The Jungle 1906

  2. Background • Born in Baltimore • Grew up poor though money on his mother’s side (stayed with grandparents due to mother-son relationship) • Gave him insight into how both the rich and the poor lived

  3. Background con’t • He graduated in 1897  Columbia University • Major - Law, but he was more interested in writing, and he learned several languages including Spanish, German and French. • Love for reading (5 yrs old) • read every book that his mother owned for a deeper understanding of the world. • Entered City College of New York(14 yrs old) • He wrote jokes, dime novels and magazine articles in boy's weekly and pulp magazines to pay for his tuition.

  4. Investigative work… • In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks in disguise, working undercover in Chicago's meatpacking plants to research his political fiction exposé • When it was published two years later, it became a bestseller

  5. Excerpt from The Jungle Intro The Jungle: JurgisRudkus -  A Lithuanian immigrant who comes to America with his wife, Ona The couple and several relatives have come to Chicago in search of a better life and settle in Packingtown, the center of Lithuanian immigration and of Chicago’s meatpacking industry Durham’s Canned Goods – National Household name Jonas – Step-uncle of Jurgis Antanas (Rudku) -  Jurgis’s father Audio Online Extra:Video

  6. Aftermath - Consumer Protection • Novel prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to order an investigation of Sinclair's allegations about unsanitary practices • used the results of that investigation to pressure Congress into approving new federal legislation to inspect meatpacking. • Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) • Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling • Meat Inspection Act (1906) • The Act mandated cleaner conditions for meatpacking plants A nauseating job, but it must be done“ ~Utica Saturday Globe "

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