The Jungle Was Designed to Bolster the Labor Movement

Workers' Rights in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle 

by Social Issues in Literature/ Greenhaven Press

Chapter 2:The Jungle and Workers' Rights

1. The Jungle Was Designed to Bolster the Labor Movement by Anthony Arthur

 

Anthony Arthur, "The Muckraker," Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair, New York: Random House, 2006, pp. 43-45. Copyright © 2006 by Anthony Arthur. Reproduced by permission of Random House, Inc. and the author.

 

Intro

 

 

 

The Jungle vs. Uncle Tom's Cabin

 

 

 

 

The Stockyard Setting

 

 

 

 

A Flawed but Powerful Novel

 

 

 

 

 

A Surreal Intensity

 

 

 

 

 

Graphic Realism

 

 

 

 

Sinclair Admired Efficiency and Hard Work