Authors: Morris Dickstein, Morris Dickstein (Introduction), Morris Dickstein
ISBN-13: 9780553212457, ISBN-10: 0553212451
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: September 1981
Edition: Standard Edition (1906)
Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of Gates of Eden and Leopards in the Temple, among other works. He lives in New York City.
This dramatic exposi of the Chicago meat-packing industry prompted an investigation by Theodore Roosevelt which culminated in the pure-food legislation of 1906.
Mr. Sinclair in The Jungle has given the world a close, a striking, and, we may say, in many ways a brilliant study of the great industries of Chicago. . . . The language Mr. Sinclair employs is appropriate to the scene, the action, and the characters of his drama. . . . The experienced reader will at once perceive that Mr. Sinclair has taken Zola for his model. The likeness is more than striking -- it fairly forces itself upon the attention of the reader. . . .He has not written a second Uncle Tom's Cabin. -- New York Times review, March 1906; Books of the Century
Introduction | ||
A Note on the Text | ||
The Text of The Jungle | 1 | |
The Author in his Own Words | 331 | |
Excerpts form the Appeal to Reason Version of The Jungle | 331 | |
Sinclair and Sentimentalism | 331 | |
An Alternate Ending | 332 | |
The Early Life of a Muckraker | 345 | |
What Life Means to Me | 348 | |
What Socialism Means to Me | 353 | |
Art and Propaganda | 354 | |
Contemporary Perspectives on the Meatpacking Industry | 357 | |
Interview with P. D. Armour | 357 | |
Portrait of a Beef Baron | 362 | |
The Beef Trust | 365 | |
The Perfection of Capitalism | 371 | |
Cruelty to Animals | 374 | |
A Packer's Rebuttal | 376 | |
Division of Labor in the Meatpacking Industry | 380 | |
Social and Economic Implications of the Division of Labor | 381 | |
Living Conditions and the Immigrant Worker | 388 | |
From Lithuania to the Chicago Stockyards - An Autobiography | 388 | |
Immigrant Wages and Family Budgets | 396 | |
Housing Conditions in Chicago, Ill.: Back of the Yards | 407 | |
From The Social Problems at the Chicago Stock Yards | 415 | |
Immigrant Women and Prostitution | 419 | |
The "Poor Man's Club": Social Functions of the Urban Working-Class Saloon | 423 | |
Slaughterhouse Humor | 427 | |
Historical Studies | 428 | |
Market Conditions and the Beef Trust | 428 | |
Racial and Ethnic Divisions in the Slaughterhouses | 431 | |
Packingtown's Women Workers and Labor Resistance | 441 | |
Muckraking, Progressivism, and the Pure Food and Drug Law | 445 | |
The Extension of Federal Power | 459 | |
The Packing Industry in the Ecosystem | 465 | |
Back to The Jungle: A View from the Twenty-first Century | 475 | |
What Jack London Says of The Jungle | 483 | |
The Jungle | 485 | |
The Chicago Scandals: The Novel Which Is Making History | 487 | |
Jurgis's Conversion | 490 | |
Sinclair's Documentary Strategy | 493 | |
Gender in The Jungle | 497 | |
The Development of The Jungle | 503 | |
The Ironies of Progressive Era Authorship | 512 | |
Selected Bibliography | 523 |