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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 for the sake of surviving in, what Sinclair argues, a corrupt Capitalist society. In turn, the popularity of the book played a pivotal role in effecting the standards of the food manufacturing industry and improving the quality of life of immigrant workers. Thus, in reading Sinclair’s book, one is moved to experience a very grueling lifestyle that more closely resembled a nightmare of constantly struggling like wild animals to survive.
It can be said that the industrial revolution was fueled by unskilled workers that came from European countries. Between 1820 and 1920 over 33 million people entered the ports of the United States. While there may have been a number of skilled workers that had arrived to the United States, it is widely believed that factories substituted skilled artisans with the division of labor of unskilled workers who specialized in a limited number of tasks (Kim, 2007). Thus, it seems logical that, during the time that Sinclair...
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