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The Disgusting Socialist Jungle The Jungle, considered Upton Sinclair’s greatest achievement, shows the deplorable conditions in meat packing plants, as well as moving the reader on the path to socialism. In order for Sinclair to give accurate details in the book, he spent over a year researching and writing about the conditions on the meat packing plants in Chicago. This first hand experience allowed for Sinclair to see the plight of the “wage-slaves.” At …

…readers to believe his point of view on things like how socialism is better than the existing government. Sinclair wants the big businesses to be regulated by the people, for the people. The Jungle is a! very influential book that caused radical changes in the way that businesses are regulated. But what would have anything happened if this book was not written? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Citations Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page 1906. New York, New York.