The Jungle

🥩 Behind the meatpacking industry was something even more horrifying: the truth. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is one of the most powerful social novels in American literature. Centered on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Chicago with dreams of prosperity, the novel descends into a harrowing tale of labor exploitation, poverty, and corporate greed in the meatpacking industry...