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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair · 2003 · 142 pages
1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon faces despair.
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Michael Pollan
“A powerful piece of journalism disguised as a novel.”↗
Mike Leigh
“This had a profound effect on me in my early twenties. A grim but sympathetic portrait of the tough lives of poor immigrant workers in the Chicago meat-packing industry, it was one of the key works that inspired me to make films about ordinary people’s lives.”↗
