The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a book written in 1906 outlining the harsh conditions immigrants in industrialized communities endured. The novel is praised as one of the most influential investigative journalism works of all time, as Sinclair had gone undercover in a meatpacking plant for weeks, highlighting the unsanitary conditions that prevailed in the plants. He talked about how men who used knives along the assembly lines often lost their fingers. Oftentimes, detached limbs were never even cleaned up, leading to the integration of human flesh into the packaged meat. His stories of how disease and contamination often reigned through the plants led to the implementation of several of the health and safety codes we rely on presently. The novel shows the importance of investigative journalism, and how it affects the world we live in today.
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