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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Based on undercover research in the meatpackinindustry undertaken by Upton Sinclair himself, this book gives an enthralling, but also gruesome picture of the plight of the employees in the meatindustry. Not only is this industry debasing and dehumanizing for the animals which are its victims, but also for the people employed there. Their labor and toils are harsh, brutal, stupefying and exploitative. The reward for their dangerous labors is only poverty. Having read about contemporary practices within the meatindustry, this book is still relevant today and can have critical potential, as it had then. For even today the work is dangerous, not rewarding and often it are immigrants that have to do this awful work. The book lead to changes in the meatindustry shortly after it was published. Of this Sinclair said: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." Let us hope it still carries that potential.