"The Jungle" a Novel by Upton Sinclair about the Meatpacking Industry of United States during the Industrial Revolution

The Jungle.
Giant industries had an enormous amount of control at the turn of the century in United States; the greed of the powerful ones has turned the American Dream into a nightmare for an ordinary worker. Idea of "Social Darwinism" was a very popular one at a time, it argued for government's noninterference in private economic affairs, "Social Darwinism" applied survival of the fittest to the economic atmosphere, which meant the rich are going to get richer and the poor will only get poorer and eventually die out. Upton Sinclair, a well rounded in socialist circles writer, was shocked by the way the working class was being exploited and the way consumers were being hoaxed, and as a result he writes The Jungle in 1905.
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