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Bachelder, Chris (January–February 2006). "The Jungle at 100: Why the reputation of Upton Sinclair's good book has gone bad". Mother Jones Magazine. Lee, Earl. "Defense of The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition". See Sharp Press. Øverland, Orm (Fall 2004). "The Jungle: From Lithuanian Peasant to American Socialist". American Literary ...
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."
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.
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.
Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906, which revealed conditions in the meat packing industry in the United States and was a major factor in the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act. [28] Sinclair wrote the book with the intent of addressing unsafe working conditions in that industry, not food safety. [28]
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.
Upton, who’s posed for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue on multiple occasions, is one of the most-famous models in the magazine’s history. 078076288_12_kate-upton_01.jpg Walter Looss Jr/SI
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) was influential and persuaded America about the supposed horrors of the Chicago Union Stock Yards, a giant complex of meat processing plants that developed in the 1870s. The federal government responded to Sinclair's book and the Neill–Reynolds Report with the new regulatory Food and Drug Administration.