pushed me to the point where I had no more body parts to donate, and then they just threw me in the trash” – Kenny Dobbins. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle and Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal explore the exploitation of meat industry workers. In The Jungle, Sinclair describes the various adversities a laborer had to go through to survive in the early 1900s, through the lives of a Lithuanian immigrant family living in Chicago. Likewise, Schlosser writes about the current challenges faced by workers in the meat processing industry and how they are treated. Although both Sinclair and Schlosser discuss the apathetic use and exploitation of workers in the meatpacking industry, Sinclair focuses primarily on the unsanitary environment in which meatpackers work and the abuses committed by their employers, while Schlosser discusses the injustices workers face as a result of the meatpacking industry. greed of industries. Sinclair and Schlosser express the unchecked power that the meat processing industry wields over its workers. In both books, the slaughterhouses manipulate their employees and use them until they have nothing left to offer. Workers are immigrants who come to America in pursuit of the American dream of wealth and freedom, but who encounter more hardship than in their home countries. The meat processing industry takes advantage of workers' desperation and pays them the lowest wages for hard work. At the beginning of The Jungle, Jurgis Rubkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, his family and friends arrive in America full of goals and the illusion of a perfect American life, but as the meat industry abuses them , their ...... middle of paper ......king workers by persuading the meat industry to improve workplace hygiene and raise wages, while Schlosser focuses on the greed that forces the meat industry to mistreat its workers. Additionally, Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906 and specifies the changes that were to occur at that time, but the problems that occurred then seem to reappear. As consumer demand for meat increases, worker exploitation will also increase, the meatpacking industry could once again become the jungle it once was (Schlosser XV). Works Cited Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2009. Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the American meal. New York: HarperCollins, 2005 Schlosser, Eric. Before. The Jungle. By Upton Sinclair. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. vii-xv.

Essay / pushed me to the point where I had no more body parts to donate, and then they just threw me in the trash” – Kenny Dobbins. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle and Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal explore the exploitation of meat industry workers. In The Jungle, Sinclair describes the various adversities a laborer had to go through to survive in the early 1900s, through the lives of a Lithuanian immigrant family living in Chicago. Likewise, Schlosser writes about the current challenges faced by workers in the meat processing industry and how they are treated. Although both Sinclair and Schlosser discuss the apathetic use and exploitation of workers in the meatpacking industry, Sinclair focuses primarily on the unsanitary environment in which meatpackers work and the abuses committed by their employers, while Schlosser discusses the injustices workers face as a result of the meatpacking industry. greed of industries. Sinclair and Schlosser express the unchecked power that the meat processing industry wields over its workers. In both books, the slaughterhouses manipulate their employees and use them until they have nothing left to offer. Workers are immigrants who come to America in pursuit of the American dream of wealth and freedom, but who encounter more hardship than in their home countries. The meat processing industry takes advantage of workers' desperation and pays them the lowest wages for hard work. At the beginning of The Jungle, Jurgis Rubkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, his family and friends arrive in America full of goals and the illusion of a perfect American life, but as the meat industry abuses them , their ...... middle of paper ......king workers by persuading the meat industry to improve workplace hygiene and raise wages, while Schlosser focuses on the greed that forces the meat industry to mistreat its workers. Additionally, Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906 and specifies the changes that were to occur at that time, but the problems that occurred then seem to reappear. As consumer demand for meat increases, worker exploitation will also increase, the meatpacking industry could once again become the jungle it once was (Schlosser XV). Works Cited Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2009. Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the American meal. New York: HarperCollins, 2005 Schlosser, Eric. Before. The Jungle. By Upton Sinclair. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. vii-xv.

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