who wrote the famous progressive novel the jungle?
42b. Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1905 to expose labor abuses in the meat packing industry. But it was food, not labor, that most concerned the public. Sinclair's horrific descriptions of the industry led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, not to labor legislation. The pen is sometimes mightier than the sword. It may be a cliche, clichÃ© but it was all too true for journalists at the turn of the. century