The Jungle.

Résumé

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. 8°. 413 pages. Illustrated green cloth. Lettering on spine slightly fading. Binding tight but slightly rubbed. Overall still in very good + condition. Name on endpaper. In his book The Jungle, Sinclair wrote about the inhumane conditions wage earners experience because of unregulated capitalism. Ironically, he began writing this novel on Christmas. His purpose was to expose the truth behind the unregulated industry of the day, including the poor treatment of immigrant workers, the poverty they lived in, the unsafe working conditions, and their job insecurity, besides their low wages. Sinclair wrote that, in capitalism, the wealthy are in control, and something needs to be done about it. He was the founder of the End Poverty in California (EPIC) movement. (Wikipedia)