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Sydney C

BRIA 24 1 b Upton Sinclairs The Jungle: Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry - Constitu... - 0 views

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the jungle working conditions

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  • The progressives revealed how these companies eliminated competition, set high prices, and treated workers as "wage slaves."
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article reveals this lack of business ethics during this time period through the cooperation of large industries in order to reduce competition. As a result, they are able to drive prices up, which depicts their cruelty towards customers as well as the treatment of workers as "wage slaves" in order to gain more profits.
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article gives historical information on the meat packing industry of the early 1900's. The article tells of the progressive movement of the age which supported reforms. The article tells of the response to "The Jungle" and the innovative aspects of the new processing regulations. The article also gives a short biography about Sinclair's childhood to his death.
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  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    speaks to alot of the conditions Jurgis and his family went though
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    "Unskilled immigrant men did the backbreaking and often dangerous work, laboring in dark and unventilated rooms, hot in summer and unheated in winter." The article shows how cruel the conditions of the factory worker were. And since the work force was unskilled and immigrants, they were often taken advantage of because they knew no better
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    The ethical issues addressed in The Jungle and how they relate to the bills passed after the publication. It talks about how Roosevelt responded to the book and passed many new restrictions on the Chicago meatpacking district, as well as businesses all over the country.
Ellen L

The New Atlantis » The Jungle at 100 - 0 views

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jungle law Roosevelt

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  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    Discusses the legal effects The Jungle had, and the rapid action of the government to investigate and try to fix the issues present in the novel. Good source for legal evolution of business practices
Zach Ramsfelder

Farm Labor in the 1930s - 0 views

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grapes of wrath treatment of the worker

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  • California newspapers alternated between ignoring the strike or printing the growers' side until several strikers were killed by growers at a Pixley, California rally. The reporters and photographers who rushed to cover the strike generally reported that it was growers, not strikers, who were breaking labor and other laws.
  • In Fall 1931, migrants were arriving in the state at the rate of 1,200 to 1,500 a day, an annual rate of almost 500,000 (p109).
  • State and local actions aimed to keep needy migrants out of the state. The vagrancy laws of 1933 and 1937, under which many migrants were arrested and sometimes "lent" to farmers to work off their fines, were finally repealed in 1941 as unconstitutional (Edwards vs California). Similarly, the Los Angeles police operated 16 checkpoints on the California-Arizona border to turn back migrants "with no visible means of support" in February-March 1936 until the checkpoints were ruled unconstitutional. (Loftis, p126).
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  • The Grapes of Wrath was published in April 1940, and President Roosevelt was quoted as reacting after reading it that "something must be done and done soon" to help California farm workers. (p174) Many schools and libraries banned The Grapes of Wrath, and Oklahoma Congressman Lyle Boren denounced it as "a lie, a black, infernal creation of a twisted, distorted mind." Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962.
  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    States the effects of the Grapes of Wrath and gives concrete information on the masses of migrant workers and their treatment in 1930s America. Shows legal actions taken as well as position of the press during the time period
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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "The arrival of Okies and Arkies set the stage for physical and ideological conflicts over how to deal with seasonal farm labor and produced literature that resonates decades later, as students read and watch "The Grapes of Wrath" and farmers and advocates continue to argue over how to obtain and treat seasonal farm workers"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source takes an in debth look at the farmers and their treatment in the 1930's as well as looking forward to present day problems that are still going on.
  • Travis F on 30 Sep 11
     
    "a four-week strike in October 1933 that involved 12,000 to 18,000 workers. Workers refused to pick the 1933 crop for the $0.60 per hundred pounds offered by growers" This quote describes the workers banding together in a strike attempting to do away with the poor treatment they are receiving from the large farm owners.
  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    About the migration of "Okies" and "Arkies" to California, their efforts to survive in the face of abuse by Californians, and writers' attempts to make public the migrant workers' plight.
Ellen L

Class in the 1930's - 0 views

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  • many among the upper classes began to flaunt their wealth more than ever. Working class Americans, many of whom were thrown out of work by the Depression (which they often correctly blamed upon the reckless financial dealings of the upper classes) were shocked and angered by this ostentatious display of wealth.
  • They often viewed such programs as hand outs, which, as can be seen in this cover, were not somethign which the upper classes felt was their responsibility to provide. They were further angered by the actions of President Roosevelt, who catered to the mass of Americans while largely ignoring the interests of the upper classes. These factors served to heigten class tensions during a period when many Americans (both rich and poor) were already tense over their financial futures.
  • New Deal regulations helped foster significant unionization and these unions would often run into conflict with company hired police forces.
  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    Discusses class conflict in the 1930s and, the New Deal's support of unionization. This article presents the views on the financial turmoil of the time from both the rich and poor, breaking down the reasons they dislike eachother
Sarah Sch

Square Deal - 0 views

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the jungle treatment of the worker workers ethics america

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "... a political philosophy joining his belief in fair play, the virtue of hard work, free labor ideology, and the role of central government in promoting these ends."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article discusses Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal. Roosevelt's idea was to promote the common interests of both the workers and the companies instead of taking a side. The article gives historical background for "The Jungle". The article specifically deals with Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the time, and his ideology. This is a good source for understanding the time period of "The Jungle".
David D

FDA Employees Say Agency Isn't Working Properly - 0 views

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fast food nation the jungle food safety

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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Nine Food and Drug Administration scientists have written a letter to President-elect Barack Obama asking him to fix the "broken" organization.
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    The FDA was created when Theodore Roosevelt was sickened after reading The Jungle. The meat industry was a sickening one in the late 1800s, but conditons have not gotten much better. Scientists writing to Obama about the failures of the FDA have cited that most of the money and resources goes into drug safety, while "the food side of the agency has lurched from one crisis to the next." This article shows that while Sinclair made food safety a relevant topic in America, the fight for clean meat is still not over.
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