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Upton Sinclair
ISBN: 9780143039587
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a story that exposes the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century. This work also brings into moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream.
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 apalling 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.
| ISBN | 014303958X | | Pages | 388 | | ISBN13 | 9780143039587
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 466 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition | | Publication date | 30 Nov 2006 | | Height (mm) | 214 | | Writer of introduction | Eric Schlosser, Ronald Gottesman | | Width (mm) | 141 | | Library of Congress | 2006043248 | | Spine width (mm) | 30 | | DEWEY | 813.52 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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