![]() ![]() The Jungle follows a Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, who works in Packingtown. ![]() ![]() Employers hiring African Americans as strikebreakers during this time would have tremendous influence during the Race Riots of 1919. His novel was aimed at one of the most profitable industries in Chicago, the stockyards, which “employed 25,000 men, women, and children and each year slaughtered fourteen million animals.” (Larson, 20) The stockyards were a big business and “directly and indirectly nearly one-fifth of Chicago 's population depended on the yards for its economic survival.” (Larson, 20) He was motivated to write his novel by the 1904 Chicago stockyard strike, in which the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen (AMC) attempted to unionize. Upton Sinclair's famed novel, The Jungle, had a profound effect on the huge business of the stockyards in Chicago. ![]()
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