Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a highly depressing political novel about Capitalism and Socialism in America during the early 1900's. ... He attends political rallies and helps organise speeches similar to the ones that introduced him to Socialism. ... Sinclair consistently compares capitalism to a machine, which grinds up workers in the pursuit of profits. When he first arrives in America, Jurgis falls in love with the beautiful efficiency of the machine as he watches the slaying of hogs. ... The Capitalist machine cannot be changed or fixed to help the masses, and Sinclair belie...

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Mostly workers felt they were being treated poorly or unfairly, which brought hate from the working class towards the political system. ... During the industrial revolution machines created to do work more efficiently. ... The worked were getting fed up with being treated poorly that they turned on the machines and started to destroy them (document 3). ...

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One of the main points of the manifesto is that workers are just seen as machines, which bring power to the bourgeois, the industry. Thus, they should all unite, taking power into their own hands, "its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable Even though it is already introduced in the very beginning of the manifesto, communism and its purpose are shown later in the second chapter: the formation of the proletariat into a class, the overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, and the conquest of political power by the proletariat . ... Similarities -Both were thought of by...

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The current labour party is a product of this movement of working through the political system to equalize society. ... Political conditions were not at their greatest, though there was more the government could have done for the communities. ... All this corruption wasn't getting better with corruption involved in political conditions. ... In result, this brought the political conditions to an all time low. ... Depressions and recessions led to cyclical employment, style and weather caused seasonal employment, and machines replacing humans brought str...

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The higher class people can get ahead in life because they have an in with the system, but the peasants will forever be stuck at their work on the machines in a packing plant. ... It is now when he becomes involved with politics. ... One critic writes, "The democratic institutions which might have provided a means of change have all been bought off by the "Machine." ... It helps move others forward in politics. ... Sinclair writes, "...it was the task of Socialists to teach and organize them for the time when they were to seize the huge machine called the Beef Trust..." (317). ...

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The Industrial Revolution was the result of many changes which made agricultural economies into industrial ones. Productivity and technical efficiency increased rapidly. The Industrial Revolution led to the growth of cities wh...

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"To this part of the yard [the fertilizer room] came all the "tankage" and the waste products of all sorts; her they dried out the bones,--and in suffocating cellars where the daylight never came you might see men and women and children bending over whirling machines and sawing bits of bone into all sorts of shapes, breathing their lungs full of the fine dust, and doomed to die, every one of them, within a certain definite time." (127) The publication of The Jungle had a great influence on the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and has had a significant impact on how we view public...

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It has profoundly influenced the entire world, and the development of the current political relations. ... Machines could produce faster then the skilled laborer and he became obsolete. ... Marx says "Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state, they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine" (Marx 43). ... The state is, similarly, an alienated form of political activity, embodying universal rights which are as ephemeral as is the idealized world of religion" (Giddens 5). ...

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