The Jungle -- Upton Sinclair

<b>Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices.</b> <p/> 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. <p/> 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, <i>The Jungle </i>continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published. <p/><b>Includes an Introduction by Alicia Mischa Renfroe<br>and an Afterword by Dr. Barry Sears</b><br><br><b>Author:</b> Upton Sinclair<br><b>Publisher:</b> Signet Book<br><b>Published:</b> 03/03/2015<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.60h x 4.10w x 1.10d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780451472557<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 8<br><b>Point Value:</b> 22<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>5988 / Jungle<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Upton Sinclair</b> (1878-1968) was born in Baltimore and began writing dime novels to pay his way through the College of the City of New York. While doing graduate work at Columbia University,