Judges and Judiciary
Dec. 22, 1999
Authors Drive for Social Justice Hit America in Gut
Even now, the novel brings a knot to the throat and a jab of nausea to the stomach, almost a century after it was first published. Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" in 1906, a graphic description of the meat-packing industry in Chicago. It depicts images of shrieking hogs being eviscerated, the guts thrown on a filthy floor and later packaged for consumption. Human remains were also rendered into processed meats when workers fell into vats of animal parts.
1878-1968
Writer/Political Reformer
Upton Sinclair
1878-1968
Writer/Political Reformer
Career Highlights: Gubernatorial candidate, California, 1933; co-founder, ACLU of Southern California, 1923; author of more than 80 books ...
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