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"The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair

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The Jungle
1906 novel on poverty, immigration, and Chicago meat packing conditions
Upton Sinclair
US novelist, socialist, and reformer
meatpacking
Wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (slaughtering and processing)
Chicago
city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: second largest city in US 3,005,072
muckrake
search for and expose corruption, scandal, especially in politics
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Jurgis
Lithuanian protagonist of The Jungle
corruption
moral perversion; depravity
exploitation
Selfish utilization, especially for profit
outcry
strong and usually public expression of protest, indignation
Meat Inspection Act
prevented adulterated or misbranded meat from being sold as food
Pure Food and Drug Act
1906 removed harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market
Food and Drug Administration
protects against impure and unsafe foods, drugs, and cosmetics; FDA
wage slave
person with total and immediate dependency on income derived from labor
undercover
Work done out of public sight; secret; spying
stockyard
enclosure for the temporary housing of livestock before slaughter

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