Upton Sinclair

"I aimed at the publics heart and by accident hit its stomach."

464 N. Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia, California 826-555-8521 USinclair@gmail.com

BACKGROUND
Upton Sinclair White

Film Producer Novelist Social activist Writer Journalist Politician Author AREA OF REFORM Meat Packaging Industry BELIEFS There is an absence of social programs and a lack of pay workers receive. There should be centralized control of the American economy.

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A restructured American society so that even poor immigrants are protected from sickening exploitation and oppression. Owners of meat-packing plants exploit and make loads of money off of workers. The need for a peaceful revolution in which Americans would vote for the government to take over the ownership of big businesses. METHODS Author of The Jungle Sinclair went undercover and posed as a slaughterhouse employee for seven weeks before beginning the novel Interviewed meat packaging workers their families, lawyers, doctors, and social workers. Sinclair spoke about uncleanliness, filth, stuffing in the meat, and slaughter of diseased animals going into the meat. ACCOMPLISHMENTS After reading The Jungle, President Roosevelt invited Sinclair to the White House to discuss it. The president then appointed a special commission to investigate Chicago's slaughterhouses. Quickly after the Jungles fame, the publics uproar pressured elected officials to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and Meat Inspection act The two 1906 laws ended up increasing consumer confidence in the food and drugs they purchased, which benefitted these businesses.

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The laws also acted as a wedge to expand federal regulation of other industries, one of the strategies to control big business pursued by the progressives. This in itself inspired a tremendous growth in investigative journalism. QUOTE It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. ANNOTATED BIB

Sinclair, Upton. "Upton Sinclar, The Jungle 1906." Docs.google.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2013. <https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B8VvzHeSt6kcN0MxSHpscm1FQzg/edit?usp=sharing&d ocId=0B8VvzHeSt6kcYUVwRms2VVlqVk0>. Primary. These document provides excerpts of Sinclairs "The Jungle." It provides background of many foul experiences the main character witnesses. "Upton Sinclair- A Face that Changed America." psu.edu. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2013. <http://www.personal.psu.edu/szm5023/Sinclair1.html>. This website provides background into Sinclair's life. It then leads up to his writing of The Jungle and how he used this work to expose the meat packaging industry. "Upton Sinclairs The Jungle: Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry ." usa.org. Constitutional Rights Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2013. <http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-24-

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1-b-upton-sinclairs-the-jungle-muckraking-the-meat-packing-industry.html>. Secondary. This website first provides insight of Sinclair's background and the events leading up to his writing of The Jungle. Then it explains the jungle and the many different reasons why he wrote it. It then closes with the public's response to his work.

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