The jungle By: Upton Sinclair

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The jungle By Upton Sinclair

• By Karen Castillo

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Excerpt from The Jungle

• Here was a population, low-class and mostly
  foreign, hanging always on the verge of
  starvation, and dependent for its opportunities
  of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal
  and unscrupulous as the old-time slave drivers
  under such circumstances immorality was exactly
  as inevitable, and as prevalent, as it was under
  the system of chattel slavery. Things that were
  quite unspeakable went on there in the packing
  houses all the time, and were taken for granted
  by everybody only they did not show, as in the
  old slavery times, because there was no
  difference in color between master and slave.
• Onas working conditions she is forced to work
  under Miss Henderson, who runs a prostitution
  ring, and most of her coworkers are prostitutes.
  Sinclair presents these conditions as a horrible
  situation for the modest, moral

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Would I trust the meat industry in 1906.

• I wouldn't trust the meat in groceries in the
  progressive era because the way they have the
  environment and how they use the old nasty meat
  to sell.

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What did Theodore Roosevelt say about The Jungle?

• At first he didn't believe the Jungle because
  Sinclair was a socialist.
• But after conducting his own investigations he
  had similar results as Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt passed the pure food ad drug
  act

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The meat packing industry in The years leading
to 1906
Upton sinclair the jungle
Consumer confidence in Beef
Legislation specifically Related to the meat
Packing industry
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• If people like upon Sinclair never spoke up then
  more people would have died by eating the food or
  by working in that environment.
• As a society we should point out injustice and
  fight it, Like people in china still use little
  kids to work like grown ups and they shouldn't
  have to.
• Things I would do to make a difference is to help
  kids in other countries that are still working
  and not going to school.
• Changes that fast food industries have done are
  they now have healthy food like salads on their
  menu and they have other side instead of french
  fries.

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Poverty

• People who lived in poverty were usually the ones
  that had to send their children to work and also
  they had to work but they paid so little for so
  much work that they never got out of poverty.

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Corruption

• Corruption in that time was that the meat packing
  plants and all other food factories didnt have
  restrictions and did what ever they wanted and
  didnt care for the workers or customers just the
  money

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Muckraking

• Muckraking was that people dug up all the bad
  things that food factories did to the workers and
  how they had their working environments.

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Journalist

• Wrote about the food industry and how it was
  corrupt.

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Wage slavery

• Wage slavery was when they worked their workers
  so much and they didn't get paid enough

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Upton sinclair

• What the writer of the jungle that exposed the
  truth of the food factories.

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Meat inspection act

• requires USDA to inspect all cattle, sheep,
  goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed
  into products for human consumption

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Pure food and drug act

• Factories had to have good real food and real
  drugs that weren't useless

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Food and drug administration

• Government agency of the United States Department
  of Health and Human Services and is responsible
  for regulating and supervising the safety of
  foods, tobacco products, dietary supplements,
  Medication drugs, vaccines,

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Theodore roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt didn't believe in Sinclair
  book because he was a socialist,
• Roosevelt put on his own investigation and found
  the same information Sinclair found.

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socialism

• refers to various theories of economic
  organization advocating public or direct worker
  ownership and administration of the means of
  production and allocation of resources,

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Excerpt 2

• They put him in a place where the snow could not
  beat in, where the cold could not eat through his
  bones they brought him food and drinkwhy, in
  the name of heaven, if they must punish him, did
  they not put his family in jail and leave him
  outsidewhy could they find no better way to
  punish him than to leave three weak women and six
  helpless children to starve and freeze?
• This quote from Chapter 16 explains Jurgiss
  mindset when he is sent to prison after attacking
  Phil Connor.being in prison is actually an
  environment far preferable to the cruel, filthy
  world of Packingtown. There he received shelter
  and food without having to do anything he
  believes that his family members are the real
  prisoners, as, without his support, they now face
  starvation and eviction.

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