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Welcome to The Jungle meatpacking then and now.(The Jungle)(Book review)

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From: Canadian Dimension
Date: 20051101
Author:Phelps, Christopher

The Jungle

By Upton Sinclair

Bedford/St, Martin's, 2005

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This year is the centennial of Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, the story of a Lithuanian immigrant newly arrived to the United States who seeks work in Chicago's gruesome meat-packing industry. Remarkably, the book still seems applicable as social criticism 100 years later. Once again, migration is reshaping the North American working class, labour's crisis has left workers defenseless against management, and meat packing is today a low-wage, dangerous job. First published in 1905 ...

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