3/26/01 U.S. History The Jungle By Upton Sinclair Essay by Ben Jones Jurgis begins his life in the United States of America in Packingtown, Illinois. He begins working at a meat packing plant. This factory process meat from pigs and cattle. The animals are kept in a pen outside the factory...

During the19th century industrialization and urbanization were at their peaks. With constant labor, and the power to run business anyway one might like, the rich kept getting rich at the expense of the poor. By offering jobs to immigrants at the wages that barely sufficed for the income of a family,...