Many of the meats were rancid, rat infested, and bacteria filled. Why do you think UPton Sinclair titled his novel The Jungle? Asked by sidney b #832622 on 10/20/2018 1:38 AM Last updated by jill d #170087 on 10/20/2018 2:26 AM Answers 1 Add Yours. The 1905 story about the Chicago meatpacking industry that inspired Upton Sinclair's . Web site: http://www.ibpinc.com In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus began spreading out of control across the country, meatpacking facilities quickly emerged as major COVID-19 hotspots, even in places where virus infections were otherwise low. Because of the low wages, immigrant families, like many other familes, were forced to live on a family wage. In 1904 Sinclair covered a labour strike at Chicagos Union Stockyards for the socialist magazine Appeal to Reason and proposed that he spend a year in Chicago to write an expos of the Beef Trusts exploitation of workers. Please select which sections you would like to print: Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. One such industry that industrialization revolutionized was the meatpacking industry, wherein farm animals are shipped, slaughtered, processed, packaged, and distributed. The rise of the meat-processing industry coincided with the rise of the American labor movement, and just as coal miners, steelworkers, and railroad workers sought power through collective bargaining, so, too, did meat workers. 22 Feb. 2023
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