“Sinclair is the most famous of the muckrakers who in the 1900s exposed widespread corporate and political malfeasance” (Greenspan, n.p.). Unlike many other journalist muckrakers, Sinclair took a different approach, by writing novels based on the true findings from his many interviews with the public. He disclosed many of his books like a journalist. “For The Jungle, twenty six year old Upton Sinclair spent a total of seven weeks …show more content…
By revealing the hardships of the Rudkus family he was hoping to shed light on the treatment of immigrant workers and how they went through what he calls “ Wage slavery”. Wage slavery is when someone's livelihood depends on their income so a hand to mouth existence. Now when Sinclair was hoping to draw attention to the poor workers instead the public paid more attention to the descriptive details of the food. When people heard the words rotten meat, or how meat was filled with dirt, sawdust, and rat droppings, jaws across the nation