The Jungle: Chicago's Packingtown from the Killing Floor
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A Lithuanian family arrives in Chicago's Packingtown expecting work and gets the killing floor: rotten meat, wage theft, a wedding debt that never ends, and winter in a house bought on terms designed to break them. Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks living among the stockyard workers and published in 1906; the public was so shaken by the descriptions of the meat that Congress passed a pure food law within months. Sinclair said he had aimed at the nation's heart and hit its stomach. Sixty plates by George Bellows and George Luks, among others, capture the tenements, street markets, and winter light of the immigrant city Sinclair wrote about.
A Lithuanian family arrives in Chicago's Packingtown expecting work and gets the killing floor: rotten meat, wage theft, a wedding debt that never ends, and winter in a house bought on terms designed to break them. Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks living among the stockyard workers and published ...
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Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) spent seven weeks undercover in the Chicago stockyards, published The Jungle in 1906, and saw a pure food law passed within the year — though he had wanted a revolution, not an inspection regime. He ran for governor of California on a plan to end poverty, and lost to the film studios.
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) spent seven weeks undercover in the Chicago stockyards, published The Jungle in 1906, and saw a pure food law passed within the year — though he had wanted a revolution, not an inspection regime. He ran for governor of California on a plan to end poverty, and lost to th...
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