feb 1, 1906 - Upton Sinclair published The Jungle
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It was a novel dramatizing the experiences of a Lithuanian immigrant family who moved to Chicago to work in the stockyards. Although Sinclair intended the novel to reveal the brutal exploitation of labor in the meatpacking industry, and thus to build support for the socialist movement, its major impact was to lay bare the entire process of industrialized food productionAdded to timeline:
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feb 1, 1906
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~ 119 years ago