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Øverland, Orm (Fall 2004). "The Jungle: From Lithuanian Peasant to American Socialist". American Literary Realism. 37 (1): 1– 24. Phelps, Christopher. "The Fictitious Suppression of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle". hnn.us. Young, James Harvey (1985). "The Pig That Fell into the Privy: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Meat Inspection Amendments ...
English: A 1920 imprint of Upton Sinclair's seminal 1906 book, The Jungle. From the collection of Harvard University's Baker Library and digitized by Google. From the collection of Harvard University's Baker Library and digitized by Google.
Mookerjee, R. N. Art for social justice : the major novels of Upton Sinclair (1988) online; Pickavance, Jason. "Gastronomic realism: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the fight for pure food, and the magic of mastication." Food and Foodways 11.2–3 (2003): 87–112. Piep, Karsten H. "War as Proletarian Bildungsroman in Upton Sinclair's Jimmie Higgins."
In a 1906 article in The Independent, [2] Sinclair outlined a plan for a home colony located within one-hour of New York City.Following the model proposed by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in her book The Home, Sinclair sought "authors, artists, and musicians, editors and teachers and professional men" [3] who wanted to avoid the drudgeries of domestic life.
Likewise, Upton Sinclair's masterpiece The Jungle was first published in the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, criticizing capitalism as being oppressive and exploitative to meatpacking workers in the industrial food system. The book is still widely referred to today as one of the most influential works of literature in modern history.
The campaign of the century: Upton Sinclair's race for governor of California and the birth of media politics (New York: Random House, 1992). Sinclair, Upton. The Literary Digest, October 13, 1934 End Poverty in California: The EPIC Movement; Sinclair, Upton. Gregory et al., eds. "Upton Sinclair's End Poverty in California Campaign".
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), most famous for his muckraking novel The Jungle (1906), advocated socialism. Jack London (1876–1916) was also very committed to social justice and socialism through some of his books as The Iron Heel or The People of the Abyss.
The campaign of the century: Upton Sinclair's race for governor of California and the birth of media politics (Random House, 1992). Rising, George G. "An EPIC Endeavor: Upton Sinclair's 1934 California Gubernatorial Campaign." Southern California Quarterly 79.1 (1997): 101–124. online