The Jungle is a novel that follows the travails of a family of Lithuanian immigrants, led by patriarch Jurgis Rudkus, who moved to the United States in the hope of living the American dream. The family lives and works in Chicago’s Packingtown, and the novel exposes the horrors of the American meatpacking industry and the conditions endured by immigrant workers in the stockyards.
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