And the wandering visitor might be sceptical about all the swindles, but he could not be sceptical about these, for the worker bore the evidences of them about his own persongenerally he had only to hold out his hand. The workers in each of them had their own peculiar diseases. he had marveled while he listened to the tale of all the things that were made out of the carcasses of animals, and of all the lesser industries that were maintained there now he found that each one of these lesser industries was a separate little inferno, in its way as horrible as the killing-beds, the source and fountain of them all. When Jurgis had first inspected the packing plants. There was another interesting set of statistics that a person might have gathered in Packingtownthose of the various afflictions of the workers. Soon after the book appeared Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act in an effort to address the abuses cited by Sinclair and others. With graphic detail, it tells the story of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, and his travails in Dunham's, a fictional meat-packing plant. In 1906 he published The Jungle, a novel situated in Chicago's horrific meat-packing district. One of the most powerful of these reform-minded writers was Upton Sinclair. Muckraking (investigative) journalists and novelists were the shock troops of progressive regulation of corporate America.
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