{"title":"Upton Sinclair","description":"Upton Sinclair","products":[{"product_id":"the-jungle-hardcover","title":"The Jungle - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSinclair had spent about six months investigating the Chicago meatpacking industry for Appeal to Reason, the work which inspired his novel. He intended to \"set forth the breaking of human hearts by a system which exploits the labor of men and women for profit\". The novel featured Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who works in a meat factory in Chicago, his teenaged wife Ona Lukoszaite, and their extended family. Sinclair portrays their mistreatment by Rudkus' employers and the wealthier elements of society. His descriptions of the unsanitary and inhumane conditions that workers suffered served to shock and galvanize readers. Jack London called Sinclair's book \"the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery\". Domestic and foreign purchases of American meat fell by half.\u003cbr\u003e Sinclair wrote in Cosmopolitan in October 1906 about The Jungle: \"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.\" The novel brought public lobbying for Congressional legislation and government regulation of the industry, including passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. At the time, President Theodore Roosevelt characterized Sinclair as a \"crackpot\", writing to William Allen White, \"I have an utter contempt for him. He is hysterical, unbalanced, and untruthful. Three-fourths of the things he said were absolute falsehoods. For some of the remainder there was only a basis of truth.\" After reading The Jungle, Roosevelt agreed with some of Sinclair's conclusions, but was opposed to legislation that he considered \"socialist\". He said, \"Radical action must be taken to do away with the efforts of arrogant and selfish greed on the part of the capitalist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101249081567,"sku":"9781940849683","price":34.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/taSVxlHhvE9781940849683.webp?v=1781068559"},{"product_id":"the-jungle-hardcover-1","title":"The Jungle - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to (Sinclair's) novels.\" -George Bernard Shaw\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, Sinclair put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them.\" -Edmund Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpton Sinclair's 1906 bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling and powerful novel depicting the plight of Jurgis Rudkus, a Slavic worker who immigrated to the United States in the early 20th Century for a better life.\u003c\/b\u003e His dream of a finding a job, building a family, and buying a home are initially fulfilled in the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. Work in the meatpacking industry proves to be a harrowing and desperate existence, and his personal life is beset by a succession of hardships and tragedy. As bleak as his journey is, Jurgis finally finds his light in a new-found political ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e is considered profoundly important in its exposure of despair at the margins of working-class life, and the atrocious descriptions of the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking process. The novel led to revolutionary reform of the industrial food industry and workers' rights, and powerfully addresses many of the same issues that we are still grappling with today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a stunning new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e is both modern and readable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jurgis Rudkus immigrates to America in the early 1900's, his dream of a new life in the Chicago meatpacking industry spins into a nightmare of debt, corporate greed, and tragedy. \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e is the astounding 1906 masterpiece from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Upton Sinclair that is startlingly relevant to our own times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101526135007,"sku":"9781513220925","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/M1RsWTNYN1BXVzNyK1A2UDNLLy9mUT09.webp?v=1781071660"},{"product_id":"the-jungle-paperback","title":"The Jungle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"They use everything about the hog except the squeal.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e--- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and socialist journalist Upton Sinclair. It was written about the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century. The novel depicts in harsh tones the poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the \"have-nots\", which is contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption on the part of the \"haves\".","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101580169439,"sku":"9781511719049","price":14.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VWIxbW9nVHd3cVNUQm5SK0tkWUc2QT09.webp?v=1781071762"},{"product_id":"the-jungle-paperback-1","title":"The Jungle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Upton Sinclair's vivid depiction of the horrors of Chicago's stockyards and slaughterhouses aroused such public indignation that a government investigation was called, eventually resulting in the passage of pure food laws. More than a hundred years later, \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes an Introduction by Alicia Mischa Renfroe\u003cbr\u003eand an Afterword by Dr. Barry Sears\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101586460895,"sku":"9780451472557","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WmhqRXFJZ2xyTDhhMUxKVlYxUjltdz09.webp?v=1781071775"},{"product_id":"oil-paperback","title":"Oil! - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpton Sinclair's searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps most well-known today as the inspiration for Paul Thomas Anderson's film \u003ci\u003eThere Will Be Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Upton Sinclair's novel \u003ci\u003eOil!\u003c\/i\u003e burst into the literary limelight amid soaring petroleum profits and gaping inequalities in 1927. By turns an ardent family saga, scintillating potboiler, and anti-capitalist tirade, \u003ci\u003eOil!\u003c\/i\u003e ranks among the most important critiques of fossil energy ever printed; and while anticipating how fossil fuels have shaped the dilemmas of our present, it also looks toward a greener, more inclusive, and altogether more livable world yet to come. This edition features a contextual introduction by Michael Tondre that illuminates the novel's urgent timeliness in our warming world.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101618737375,"sku":"9780143137443","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MGFtZUFhMXdiVmNkdmVPY1BHQ2Z1QT09.webp?v=1781071837"},{"product_id":"the-jungle-hardcover-2","title":"The Jungle - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout packing meat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Upton Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the changing lives of immigrants traveling to the United States and landing in Chicago or other industrialized cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSinclair exposed shocking government and business corruption in this 1906 best seller. He worked undercover in the meatpacking Chicago stockyards to describe in true detail the horrific conditions among workers and the food they produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work, intended as a message to promote socialism, instead caused changes in the food industry with laws signed by Theodore Roosevelt as the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. \"I aimed at the public's heart,\" Sinclair wrote, \"and by accident hit its stomach.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101643935967,"sku":"9781945644061","price":29.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VTk5Nkl0UFBuLzNWa29KUS80NVlydz09.webp?v=1781071884"},{"product_id":"the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair-fiction-classics-paperback","title":"The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Fiction, Classics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London called it, \"the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the novel that Upton Sinclair used to show horrific practices in the meatpacking industry in the first part of the twentieth century. Like most of Sinclair, the book ultimately becomes a paen to socialism. But the man could write, whatever his politics were, and ewww , the meatpackers were up to no damn good at all anyway. Highly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101646557407,"sku":"9781598183221","price":26.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Y0lVV2NmNmg3M3pPQUs0bUFyczc3Zz09.webp?v=1781071890"},{"product_id":"the-jungle-paperback-2","title":"The Jungle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published serially in 1905, \"The Jungle\" is American journalist Upton Sinclair's dramatization of the harsh working conditions for and exploitation of immigrant workers in industrial cities like Chicago during the early part of the 20th century. Sinclair spent seven weeks prior to publication working 'in cognito' in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards gathering information for the novel. The work is principally concerned with Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant trying to make ends meet in Chicago, and his family's struggle for survival. Having come to America in want of a better life, Jurgis instead finds that a combination of poor working conditions, slave level wages, and mounting debt, offers little hope for it. While Sinclair, a noted socialist, showed the vast socio-economic divide between the haves and have-nots and the corrupt alignment of American politicians with the industrial-capitalist machine, the greater impact of the novel would be on reforming the health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry, which were brought to light by the work. Upton Sinclair's \"The Jungle\" dramatized the plight of the working class in a way that no American novel before had and thus has established itself as one of the most important socialistic novels of all time. 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