2 Upton Sinclair The Jungle Signet Classics 1960 & Oil

For sale are two books of social criticism by Upton Sinclair against the depredations of corporate monopoly power. The Jungle - 1906 . Signet Classics 1960 Sinclair had spent about six months investigating the Chicago meatpacking industry for the Socialist magazine Appeal to Reason, the work which inspired his novel. He intended to "set forth the breaking of human hearts by a system which exploits the labor of men and women for profit" . His descriptions of the unsanitary and inhumane conditions that workers suffered served to shock and galvanize readers. The novel brought public lobbying for Congressional legislation and government regulation of the industry, including passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act Oil! - 1927 . by Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle (1906) . Penguin Books 2008. Enraged by the Teapot Dome oil scandals of the 1920s Harding administration, Sinclair's novel of the early California oil industry tells a story of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist.

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