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Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle, is known as the world's greatest muckraker because of his exposure of some of the world's problems in his literature and journalism. In 1904, he was commissioned by a socialist newspaper to investigate and record the living and working conditions in Chicago's stockyards. Sinclair observed the working environment in the stockyards for seven weeks to gather information. In 1905, The Jungle was published serially in the Appeal to Reason. Despite the popularity of Sinclair's work, it was almost impossible to get it published in book form because it disclosed information of the meat industries unsanitary working conditions and the description of the plight of immigrants in America. After checking that Sinclair's observations in it were true, Ultimately Doubleday, Page and Company published The Jungle in 1906(Moore 181). Because of i
ts unfathomable subjects and horrifying descriptions, The Jungle had tremendous impact on the nation by informing the people of the unsanitary and horrible working conditions. The impact The Jungle had on public awareness for the horrific working conditions of workers and immigrants was unprecedented in American history. The book made Americans realize societies internal conditions they had obliviously accepted. It also forced the government to take power out of the hands of industry, and enforce regulations which would make life safer for the public. The public reacted to this description by becoming much more cautious when buying meat, and meat sales declined greatly. President Theodore Roosevelt was also pressured into responding to the public's reaction. When the first investigating committee exonerated the packers, Roosevelt appointed the Neill-Reynolds Commission because of public
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