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The jungle
by Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.
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Slaughtering and slaughter-houses, Sociology, Lithuanian Americans, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Emigration and immigration, Packing-houses, Stockyards, Meat industry and trade, Corrupt practices, Open Library Staff Picks, Classic Literature, Working class, Political corruption, Beef industry, Immigrants, Meat industry, Capitalism, Trade unions, Lithuanians in the United States, History, Factories, Law and legislation, Slaughtering and slaughterhouses, Corruption (in politics), Spanish language, Nonfiction, Social conditions, Politics, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Chicago (ill.), fiction, Illinois, fiction, Fiction, political, Fiction, general, Lithuania, fiction, Fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Large type booksPreviews available in: English Yiddish
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January 1, 2007, Blackstone Audio Inc.
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January 1, 2007, Blackstone Audio Inc.
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March 8, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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January 1, 2007, Blackstone Audio Inc.
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The Jungle
June 6, 2006, Modern Library
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February 5, 2006, ICON Group International, Inc.
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November 2, 2006, 1st World Library - Literary Society
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March 5, 2006, ICON Group International, Inc.
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The Jungle
November 2, 2006, 1st World Library - Literary Society
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February 5, 2006, ICON Group International, Inc.
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The Jungle (Webster's Chinese-Traditional Thesaurus Edition)
May 5, 2006, ICON Group International, Inc.
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The Jungle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
March 28, 2006, Penguin Classics
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March 28, 2005, Barnes & Noble Classics
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February 21, 2005, Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
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July 1, 2005, Prestwick House, Inc.
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September 20, 2004, Barnes & Noble Classics
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The Jungle (Wadsworth Classics)
July 13, 2004, Wadsworth Publishing
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April 1, 2003, Barnes & Noble Classics
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The jungle: the uncensored original edition
2003, See Sharp Press
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April 1, 2003, See Sharp Press
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The jungle: an authoritative text, contexts and backgrounds, criticism
2003, Norton
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The jungle: an authoritative text, contexts and backgrounds, criticism
2003, Norton
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The Jungle
August 2000, Cyber Classics
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April 1999, Cyber Classics Inc
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The Jungle
October 1999, Sagebrush Education Resources
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The Jungle (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection)
January 30, 1997, Audio Book Contractors
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October 1994, Blackstone Audiobooks
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1994, Recorded Books, Inc.
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February 1, 1991, University of Illinois Press
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March 1990, Cram Cassettes Study Guides
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Jungle (Bantam Classics)
January 1981, Tandem Library
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September 1, 1981, Bantam Classics
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March 27, 1980, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Jungle
"Published February, 1906", c1906, The Jungle Publishing Co.
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The Jungle
First published in 1906
Subjects
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses, Sociology, Lithuanian Americans, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Emigration and immigration, Packing-houses, Stockyards, Meat industry and trade, Corrupt practices, Open Library Staff Picks, Classic Literature, Working class, Political corruption, Beef industry, Immigrants, Meat industry, Capitalism, Trade unions, Lithuanians in the United States, History, Factories, Law and legislation, Slaughtering and slaughterhouses, Corruption (in politics), Spanish language, Nonfiction, Social conditions, Politics, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Chicago (ill.), fiction, Illinois, fiction, Fiction, political, Fiction, general, Lithuania, fiction, Fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Large type booksPeople
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)Places
Chicago (Ill.), Illinois, Chicago, United StatesTimes
1865-1918Work Description
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.
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