Helpful Score: 3
If you ever think your life is bad...read this book. It is a new insight on Chicago's history and the need for the development of the FDA. Fascinating read.
Upton Sinclair wrote this book to bring attention to the problems within the meat-packing industry, and to describe the type of life new immigrants endured. It is well-written, very descriptive and not a "happy" read, but an excellent book for its purpose.
FROM PAPERBACK SWAP: "1906 best-seller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page."
