and foremost, he tries to awaken the reader to the terrible
living conditions of immigrants in the cities around the turn of
the century. Chicago has the most potent examples of these
conditions. Secondly, he attempts to show the advantages of
socialism in helping to remedy the problems of a society such as
the one that exists in Chicago at this time. Sinclair accomplishes his objectives with an extremely
powerful story.
What are the lasting effects of Upton Sinclairs Novel the Jungle?
Now days, meat factories have health and maintenance checks routinely to ensure that you are eating healthy food. That can not 100% stop from what goes on secretly in a factory but it improves the chances by far more.
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The Jungle was a real eye opener to the public. People began to investigate and question everything. Muckrackers explored everything and got the "dirt" uncovered. Siclair's novel brought great reform to our shops, sanitary lifestyle, and fairness. The Jungle revealed the disgusting way of processing the buchers went through. Thanks to Sinclair we now have the USDA.
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JOJO Alfonso
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I think that Upton Sinclair's novel opened the eyes of the public. I informed them on how their food was beeing prepared. I also woke up the government in doing something about it. The actions that took place after Sinclair's novel, still affects how food preparation is today.
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ReplyDeleteThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair impacted sanitary conditions in every company a lot. Now we have regulations and there are even inspectors and rules that companies have to follow. It also opened Americas eyes to what was really happening behind closed doors of industries.
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I agree with Ashley. Sinclairs book did have a major impact on Cleanliness in factories. But it also brought attention to the public and the government of what workers in the factory were doing. Sinclair made it sound as if the workers weren't even trying to stay clean. So I think after the book was published workers may have tried to stay a little more clean.
ReplyDeletethere has more sanitary conditions in the factories and stores, and also they now have health regulations in the resturaunts and fast food places, stores and factories
ReplyDeleteThe ever lasting effects of the Book The Jungle By Upton Sinclair were that today in 2010 there are health regulations in the factories, we see this when you walk into a restroom you will see a sign saying that employees must wash hands before they go back to work. And we are more sanitary than back when Upton sinclair wrote his book The Jungle.
ReplyDeleteIn the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair we see the hideous conditions of the meat factory. It goes into detail of how the rats would run across the meat and how the leaky ceilings dropped nasty water upon the piles of meat. Consequences weren't as severe as they are today. After the book was released to the public and the meat factory had been exploited workers in the factory took caution with the machinery so that a finger wouldn't end up in the pile. Then in 1908 the supreme court ruled in Muller v. Oregon that poor working conditions were unhealthy.
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a major impact on the cleanliness and quality of many food factories today. The novel divulged with others of what was occurring in a meatpacking factory. People who ate the factory's meat started becoming dubious towards what they were consuming. That soon led to inspections in factories today to make sure that consumers won't become ill and they will feel safer about eating the meat produced.
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the novel was able to show people the truth inside of meat factories. it revealed just how gross and unsanitarry it was. the working conditions were really disgusting. now there are laws and requirements so that factories must be kept clean and stuff. there are now cleaner factories and different methods to how meat is produced inside these factories.
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Just like the photographers who took pictures of the living condition in New York, Upton Sinclair and the Muckrackers were no different. They would write about the suffrage of the poor and Sinclair's book is another way to scar an image of unsanitary to reader's mind which helped a lot for the reforms that America had experienced. His book is one of the switches for reformations, for change of the greater good because there will be no truth without recognition.
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I think that Sinclairs novel opened the eyes of hundreds of thousands of people that were consuming his food. And it made the public realize how unsanitary the food was , and how bad the food was as it was being prepared. and with that being said ,, his novel then caused the USDA to go in effect. The USDA today is a health dept. for food. It makes sure that the food that we eat is prepared properly, and in turn we are a lot more healthier because of it.
ReplyDelete- Francheska Torres-Martin. per. 3
The lasting effects of The Jungle being published was that meat factory owners were put in the spotlight and showed the public their true colors of how they ran their businesses. It was so digusting that people couldn't help but question what they were buying to put on their tables every night. The government was forced to take action and make the working conditions much more sanitary. If this book wasn't published then meat factories to this day might be where they were back then.
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Upton Sinclair opened the public's eyes to what was really happening in the meat factories. Expired meat was being sold, and the factories were unsanitary, even for the workers. Back then, they did not have the USDA to check the quality of meat before it was sold to the public. Before his book was published families were getting sick all over the country; not only the people eating the meat, but the workers in the factories were getting sick from unsanitary conditions. Now there is a government agency, who has the reponsibility of monitoring and inspecting agricultural practices in the US. Food processing companies have to meet certain standards in order to stay open. Upton Sinclair's book was important because it focused attention on food and agricultural safty issues at a critical moment in US history.
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I think what lasted was the shock of what a whole lot of people ate through out all those years. I think the shock might have remained in a lot of people as well as the anger in the factory owners that were making a whole lot of money by not throwing away meat that was expired and that it's been on the germy floor with rats in it. Workers basiclly washed their filth off into the meats and sausages! So, I think that the people who were not vegaterians, and the factory owners were the most effected because the peole most likely died, so thats a while of effect to themselves and other people that loved them. Also, the factory owners were so used to being so FILTHY STINKIN rich, : literally ... and then, they went down emidietly like never before so, this was a really big hit.
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