In the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century the country was experiencing a boom time in the economy, but it came at the expense of the average poor immigrant. As long as business men were making a buck they didn't care or who what they exploited in order to do so. Also, there were no limitations on what any industry can and can not do. The United States Government had a laissez-faire policy at the time, and the economy was let be. This proved harmful to the everyday American because they had no protection under the laws in there workplace's. In the novel The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, he exposes the wrongs of our society at the time by using literary muckraking, to "dig the dirt" of our economic system.

Society needed a red flag in order for humanitarians of societies middle

The government officials of the time were almost forced to go along with this movement because unless they wanted to be out of office they had to adopt reformists policies. They had to regulate almost everything which was always never to be tampered with. They were looking at the problems as humanitarian and they still left the economy alone and this proves an very bad mistake in our history.

and upper classes to take affirmative action against inhumane acts involving the workplace. The Jungle was one of the key factors in the progressive movement because of it's popularity. Also it is a perfect example of muckraking, and even the graphicness of the book told the horrid tale of the meat packing plants of Chicago. It gave such a realistic image of how life was like for most of the population. This novel sparked a great number of political reforms, the meat packing plants were inspected thoroughly and child labor wa

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