‘The Jungle’ at 120: How a 1906 novel continues to surface in discussions about unjust labour
‘The Jungle’ at 120: How a 1906 novel continues to surface in discussions about unjust labour
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‘The Jungle’ at 120: How a 1906 novel continues to surface in discussions about unjust labour
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, which exposed hazardous working conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking plants, first appeared serially in a socialist newspaper before being published as a novel.
Both a journal and a novel published in the United States during the first World War. Jack London called The Jungle "The Uncle Tom's Cabin of Wage Slavery."