Jason Camacho
Introduction to American History
Immigrating into the Jungle
The Industrial Revolution assisted with a number of technological advancements and dramatically changed the way the United States views the workplace today. However, one cannot mention the Industrial Revolution without the mention of the role immigration played on it during that time. In Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, he attempts to persuade the American public of 1906 to relate and sympathize with the immigrants that compose the lower working class and push towards a more socialist society. Within the book, images of unsafe working conditions, long frustrating periods of unemployment, language barriers, and the signs of political corruption come together to paint a not-so-ideal view of what many immigrants entered into as they pursued the legendary “American Dream”. Yet, Sinclair manages to uncover many such issues within the telling of the story of one Lithuanian family that was torn apart......
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