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Upton Sinclair.  The Jungle Plot Summary  Jurgis Rudkus and his
family come to America from Lithuania to seek their fortune.
They arrive in Chicago's stockyards district, where the gigantic
meatpacking plants operate, and find employment performing
various tasks in the slaughterhouses. Quickly, the family
realizes that their dreams of America and its wealth were
painfully far from reality. Instead of being a land of promise,
it is a land of interminable toil and poverty. The workers at
the meatpacking plants are poorly paid, overworked and subject
to unfair labor practices and dangero