Upton Sinclair: The horrors of American "Capitalism"
In Upton Sinclair's novels The Jungle, Oil!: A novel, and The Coal War, he supports Socialism by revealing the terrible conditions faced by the unskilled laborers in "free" Capitalist America, and depicts these conditions in such a detailed manner that even the most apathetic readers are moved. The accuracy of his details is amazing: His books brought about several investigations, and they found that almost everything that he wrote was true and there were very few details that could not be confirmed.
Sinclair's The Jungle was his first foray into the cruel horrors faced by the working class of America. In this book, Sinclair uses Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian with a dream of wealth and the end of his troubles, to show the injustices done to the working man.
JurgisÂ… had heard of America. That was a country where, they said, a man might earn three rubles a day; and Jurgis figured what three rubles a day would mean, with prices as......
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