![]() ![]() Jurgis Rudkus and his bride Ona are crushed by a series of blows that suggest parallels between the treatment of the livestock and the workers employed to process them. Immigrant family whose dream of success turns to a nightmare on the “killing floors” of the Chicago packinghouses. ![]() Had sold more than 100,000 copies, and its revelations about contamination in the packing plants speeded passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act.ĭedicated to “the Workingmen of America,” Within a year of its publication in book form Plants so he could view conditions firsthand. Officials, health inspectors, and the workers themselves, who smuggled him into Researching the book in 1904, Upton Sinclair interviewed fellow America's most influential proletarian novel, emerged from a seven-week investigation of Chicago's slaughterhouses. ![]()
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