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Upton Sinclair, Jr. And The Ju
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Upton Sinclair, Jr. & His Novel: The Jungle
Upton Sinclair, the man who grasped America by the stomach. His famous novel The Jungle showed how the Progressive Era was a time where the meat packaging wasn't exactly the cleanest in Chicago. This is where the problem was brought up by Upton. In our es ....
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....ious and idealistic.
Now finally unto the interesting part. The Meat Cutters' strike, 1904, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters, with 56,000 members, demanded that the "Beef Trust" - Armour, Cudahy, Swift, and other great meat packing companies - grant a wage to all workers in all their plants throughout the country. The companies responded with an offer of a minimum wage for workers classified as skilled. The union saw this as a trick. They thought the companies would later "change" many skill.... |
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