overnment regulation through bribes and deceit. He also soon learns that everyone steals from the people below them in the system. Sinclair writes, “...the bosses grafted off the men, and they grafted off each other; and someday the superintendent would find out about the boss, and then he would graft off the boss” (59). Sinclair reveals that men of a higher status were able to steal freely from others and get away with it. If one found out, he just stole right back from another. This was Capitalism in and of itself. Here, in the stockyards of Chicago, the upper class rules over the lower class.
             In Packingtown, Jurgis Rudkus and his family face many difficulties with the Capitalistic rule. T
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