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Forced To Work Members Of The Family
1,888 wordsIn the Book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair the extreme horrors of the meat packing industry in the 1900 s were exposed to all. He vividly displayed the hardships that new immigrants had faced upon their arrival to this great nation. Also I found that this book was a huge promoter of socialism, and it was believed that this method of economy would be the end of poverty in America. The book goes through the life a Lithuanian family that just moved to America in pursuit of wealth and prosperity. They...
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Meat Packing Packing Industry
1,033 words... ch men labored on slippery floors processing the meat. Open vats laid upon the level of the floor, the peculiar trouble of these workers was they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting. Sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Andersons Pure Leaf Lard (Cook 112)! To insure that the meatpacking plants would stay open the owners would do just about anything. An...
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Men And Women Upton Sinclair
1,159 wordsUpton Sinclair's most famous novel, The Jungle, not only symbolized an era where dirt and filth ran rampant in meat packing industry, but it also exposed people to the natural human desire of greed, power, and corruptions. This newly gained knowledge resulted in a socialist transformation. The novel follows the lives a large Lithuanian family living during the early 1900 s that immigrates to the United States in the pursuit of freedom and happiness. The family of eleven took what little money th...
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Food And Drug Meat Packing
712 wordsIt's a Jungle Out There Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) gives an in depth look at the lives of the immigrant workers here in America. In fact the look was so in depth that the Pure Food and Drug Act was created as a result. Many people tend to focus purely on the unsanitary conditions instead of the hardships faced by the workers. Actually I think that Sinclair doesn't want the focus on the meatpacking, but on overcoming obstacles, especially through Socialism. Sinclair was himself very...
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Fast Food Industry Fast Food Nation
1,845 words... effects have been profound throughout the American agricultural economy. Well, again if you go back to 1970, before the meteoric growth in the American fast food industry, the top five meat packing firms in the United States controlled about 20 % of the beef that was being sold in America. Today the top five control more than 85 % and there's really three meat packing companies that control the overwhelming majority of beef that Americans eat. There are 13 slaughterhouses in the United State...
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