The Jungle
An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle - his devastating exposé of the meat-packing industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking revelation of intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards. It quickly became a bestseller, arousing public sentiment and resulting in such federal legislation as the Pure Food and Drug Act. The brutally grim story of a Slavic family who emigrates to America, The Jungle tells of their rapid and inexorable descent into numbing povert…
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Weitere Autoren: Darnell, Tony (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-68092-191-5
- EAN: 9781680921915
- Produktnummer: 26432230
- Verlag: 12th Media Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.6 cm 500 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 500
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