Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel “The Jungle” sought to expose appalling working conditions in Chicago’s meat-packing industry. Sinclair wrote about a company cheating its workers out of wages. He described how workers using knives lost fingers and how others injured their backs hauling 100-pound slabs...

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