#AJourneyIntoTheCenterOfTheEarth by #JulesVerne

Descending into the unknown! A thrilling adventure through volcanic tubes to a world of prehistoric wonders beneath the Earth's crust. 🌋🔦

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-journey-into-center-of-earth-by-jules.html

#TheJungle by #UptonSinclair

The book that changed food laws forever. Sinclair’s gritty exposé of the meatpacking industry and the immigrant struggle. 🏭🥩🇺🇸

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair.html

A Journey into the Center Of The Earth By Jules Verne

D’abord paru en feuilleton dans un journal socialiste en 1905, ce roman d’Upton Sinclair souleva le cœur des étasuniens. Il raconte la lutte pour sa survie d’une famille d’émigrés lituaniens, dont les membres n’ont d’autre choix que de travailler dans les abattoirs de Chicago.

Upton Sinclair s’infiltra dans les abattoirs afin de documenter les horribles conditions de travail et d’hygiène qui y régnaient. Des lois visant à améliorer les conditions sanitaires suivirent la parution du roman qui rencontra un grand succès.

Une verve romanesque incroyable, beaucoup de rebondissements et de suspense, cependant suppléés à la fin par des discours socialistes plus rhétoriques. Mais on retient que la forme longue/feuilletonesque a permis à Upton Sinclair de livrer un véritable roman initiatique.

On est toutefois déconcerté à la lecture de certaines pages contenant des commentaires racistes visant des ouvriers noirs. Des passages d’autant plus troublants que le livre argumente en faveur d’une égale dignité humaine. L’explication tient sans doute au fait qu’Upton Sinclair, homme du Sud des États-Unis, appartenait à une époque et à un milieu où le racisme demeurait profondément ancré. Tout grand romancier qu’il fut, il ne sut pas s’en affranchir.

La lecture de La Jungle reste cependant hautement recommandable !

#uptonsinclair #thejungle #lajungle #abattoirs #meatindustry #chicago

Today in Labor History June 30, 1906: United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in response to Upton Sinclair's novel, “The Jungle,” which exposed atrocious sanitary conditions in Chicago meat packing industry. Sinclair intended his book not only to bring attention to the public health threat of the squalid working conditions, but also to the racism faced by Chicago’s largely immigrant meat workers, as well as the corruption of both the politicians and union officials. However, the public was most outraged by the prospect of getting food poisoning from the rotten meat.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #meatpacking #publichealth #thejungle #uptonsinclair #union #corruption #foodsafety #chicago #workplacesafety #immigration #fiction #novel #book #author #writer @bookstadon

Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" 120 Years Later: Still Lethal After all These Years

Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle was written in 1906 about an immigrant  worker's life in a meatpacking plant in Chicago. The conditions he describes there are a chilling reminder of the deaths and injuries still endured by working class immigrants today. In addition to work-life the author draws

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Everyone who chose to not vote for Harris should read or reread The Jungle to get a clear sense of the past that will become our literal future over the next four years.

All while Trump urges Netanyahu to be more aggressive in Gaza, and to do the same in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and, inevitably, Iran.

Great job y'all. Fantastic 👏🏿

I hope you'll be happy with the grave new world you've helped to create.

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