| In this powerful book we enter the world of??Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives??in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom,??and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the??astonishing truth about 'packingtown,' the??busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where??new world visions perish in a jungle of human??suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the??'muckraking' novel, here explores the workingman's??lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking??labor, the injustices of 'wage-slavery,'??the bewildering chaos of urban life. The??Jungle, a story so shocking that it??launched a government investigation, recreates this??startling chapter if our history in unflinching??detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform,??Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his??1906 novel stands as one of the most important --??and moving -- works in the literature of social??change. |
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