The Jungle
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This dramatic exposi of the Chicago meat-packing industry prompted an investigation by Theodore Roosevelt which culminated in the pure-food legislation of 1906.New York Times Book ReviewMr. Sinclair in The Jungle has given the world a close, a striking, and, we may say, in many ways a brilliant study of the great industries of Chicago. . . . The language Mr. Sinclair employs is appropriate to the scene, the action, and the characters of his drama. . . . The experienced reader will at once perceive that Mr. Sinclair has taken Zola for his model. The likeness is more than striking -- it fairly forces itself upon the attention of the reader. . . .He has not written a second Uncle Tom's Cabin. -- New York Times review, March 1906; Books of the Century
IntroductionA Note on the TextThe Text of The Jungle1The Author in his Own Words331Excerpts form the Appeal to Reason Version of The Jungle331Sinclair and Sentimentalism331An Alternate Ending332The Early Life of a Muckraker345What Life Means to Me348What Socialism Means to Me353Art and Propaganda354Contemporary Perspectives on the Meatpacking Industry357Interview with P. D. Armour357Portrait of a Beef Baron362The Beef Trust365The Perfection of Capitalism371Cruelty to Animals374A Packer's Rebuttal376Division of Labor in the Meatpacking Industry380Social and Economic Implications of the Division of Labor381Living Conditions and the Immigrant Worker388From Lithuania to the Chicago Stockyards - An Autobiography388Immigrant Wages and Family Budgets396Housing Conditions in Chicago, Ill.: Back of the Yards407From The Social Problems at the Chicago Stock Yards415Immigrant Women and Prostitution419The "Poor Man's Club": Social Functions of the Urban Working-Class Saloon423Slaughterhouse Humor427Historical Studies428Market Conditions and the Beef Trust428Racial and Ethnic Divisions in the Slaughterhouses431Packingtown's Women Workers and Labor Resistance441Muckraking, Progressivism, and the Pure Food and Drug Law445The Extension of Federal Power459The Packing Industry in the Ecosystem465Back to The Jungle: A View from the Twenty-first Century475What Jack London Says of The Jungle483The Jungle485The Chicago Scandals: The Novel Which Is Making History487Jurgis's Conversion490Sinclair's Documentary Strategy493Gender in The Jungle497The Development of The Jungle503The Ironies of Progressive Era Authorship512Selected Bibliography523
