Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968), was an American writer and social and economic reformer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, and educated at the college of the city of New York and Colombia University (Upton). The author of 90 books, Sinclair became well known after the publication of his novel The Jungle (1906), which exposed the unsanitary and miserable working conditions in the s

By the 1900's most states had enacted food laws, but they were poorly enforced. An effort to enact a federal law was led by Dr. Harley W. Wiley, head of the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture. Amid a storm of public indignation, a pure food and Drug act was passed on June 30, 1906. The act forbade foreign and interstate commerce in adulterated or fraudulently labeled food and drugs. (Pure Food)

A particular part I read of The Jungle describe in a more detailed fashion of the work place: "All day the blazing mid summer sun beat down upon that square mile of abominations: upon tens of thousands of cattle crowded into pens whose wooden floors stank and steamed catagian; upon bare blistering, cinder-strewn railroad tracks, and huge blocks of dingy meat factories, whose labyr

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