After the Meat Inspection Act was passed, the industry was supposed to improve as a whole all around, starting with the meat quality and handling and ending with factory conditions. ... The work environment is not being regulated as it should and workers often fall ill due to the abundance of animal remains around the factory that gather bacteria. ...
Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder - wage earners and their families were at a particular disadvantage in the capitalist jungle.Workers were slaves to the whims of their masters, the capitalist who own and ran private industry. Many of the workers were immigrants ignorant of the language and ways of their new country were the most vulnerable members of this class...
