Автор: Sinclair Upton Название: The Jungle ISBN: 0451472551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451472557 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 3650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices.
Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair.
Upton Sinclair's vivid depiction of the horrors of Chicago's stockyards and slaughterhouses aroused such public indignation that a government investigation was called, eventually resulting in the passage of pure food laws. More than a hundred years later, The Jungle continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published.
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Автор: Sinclair, Upton Название: Dragon`s teeth i ISBN: 1931313032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781931313032 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 34430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Sinclair, Upton Название: Jungle, The (100th Anniversary Edition) ISBN: 0451528042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451528049 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 3650.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Turning his muckraking talents to journalism itself, Upton Sinclair exposes a variety of the news media's ingrained biases and its agenda-serving corruption.
In his famous book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair became famous for exposing filthy and inhumane conditions in the American meat packing industry at the turn of the 20th century. Following these revelations, new laws were made protecting factory workers and the conditions they labored in. Sinclair afterwards became a figure for condemnation - his personal life was scrutinized and made the subject of spurious gossip and rumor, the cause being that the vast majority of newspaper corporations opposed his pro-worker, pro-regulation views.
The title of this book alludes to a common practice in brothels: those frequenting these establishments would buy 'brass checks' to hand to the woman of their choice. Sinclair draws a parallel between such customers and the proprietors of the media, who delegate the promotion of their political, financial and social agendas to journalists willing to propagate such ideas.
Drawing on experiences of his own and of others, Sinclair presents here a convincing litany of claims backed by evidence, against a mass media corrupted by narrow special interests and their funds. He proposes several solutions; namely a law that corrections be given equal prominence to lies, and the unionization of reporters. Though The Brass Check was widely - and wrongly - condemned for inaccuracy in the years following its publication in 1919, it is today considered a prescient account of close relations between powerful corporations and the mass media.
Автор: Sinclair Upton Название: Manassas: A Novel of the War ISBN: 129789023X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781297890239 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 47970.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Sinclair Upton Название: The Second Story Man ISBN: 1700624652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781700624659 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6320.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: An indictment of the corruption and injustice in the justice system from one of America's greatest socialist writers-Upton Sinclair.
Автор: Lauren Coodley Название: Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual ISBN: 1496213432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496213433 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Had Upton Sinclair not written a single book after The Jungle, he would still be famous. But Sinclair was a mere twenty-five years old when he wrote The Jungle, and over the next sixty-five years he wrote nearly eighty more books and won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a filmmaker, labor activist, women's rights advocate, and health pioneer on a grand scale. This new biography of Sinclair underscores his place in the American story as a social, political, and cultural force, a man who more than any other disrupted and documented his era in the name of social justice.Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual shows us Sinclair engaged in one cause after another, some surprisingly relevant today—the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, the depredations of the oil industry, the wrongful imprisonment of the Wobblies, and the perils of unchecked capitalism and concentrated media. Throughout, Lauren Coodley provides a new perspective for looking at Sinclair's prodigiously productive life. Coodley's book reveals a consistent streak of feminism, both in Sinclair's relationships with women—wives, friends, and activists—and in his interest in issues of housework and childcare, temperance and diet. This biography will forever alter our picture of this complicated, unconventional, often controversial man whose whole life was dedicated to helping people understand how society was run, by whom, and for whom.
Автор: Sinclair Upton Название: The Jungle: Political Novel ISBN: 8027309867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788027309863 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Jungle portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. The book depicts working-class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. The primary purpose of the novel in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. The main character in the book, Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, tries to make ends meet in Chicago. The book begins with his wife Ona and his wedding feast. He and his family live near the stockyards and meatpacking district where many immigrants, who do not know much English, work. He takes a job at Brown's slaughterhouse. Jurgis had thought the US would offer more freedom, but he finds working-conditions harsh. He and his young wife struggle to survive as they fall deeply into debt and become prey to con men. Hoping to buy a house, they exhaust their savings on the down payment for a substandard slum house, which they cannot afford. The family is eventually evicted after their money is taken.
Автор: Sinclair Upton Название: The Jungle ISBN: 1731703570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781731703576 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 33940.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Sinclair Upton Название: The Jungle: Complete and Unabridged by Upton Sinclair ISBN: 1617200271 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617200274 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 33470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Название: Study Guide to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair ISBN: 1645425185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645425182 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 9760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Upton Sinclair`s The Jungle, a novel portraying the harsh conditions and exploitation of immigrants in major US cities in the early twentieth century.
Автор: Sinclair Upton Название: The Jungle ISBN: 1722504110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781722504113 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Jungle, a novel by American journalist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), was written in 1906 to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants living in Chicago and similar industrialized cities in the United States. While his main goal in describing the working conditions in the meat industry was based on an investigation he conducted for a socialist newspaper with the goal of advancing socialism in the United States, most readers were more concerned with several of the passages exposing health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meat packing industry during the early 20th century. It greatly contributed to a public outcry, which led to reforms including the Meat Inspection Act. Sinclair famously said of the public reaction, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
The book depicts working-class poverty amid a lack of social support, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a sense of hopelessness among the many workers. These elements contrasted greatly with the deeply rooted corruption of the people in power. A review by writer Jack London called it the "Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery."
Sinclair had spent seven weeks working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards while gathering information for the socialist newspaper, Appeal to Reason. As a journalist who exposed corruption in government and business, he was considered a "muckraker." He first published The Jungle in serial form in the newspaper in 1905 and it was then published as a book in 1906.
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