The main character of The Jungle is Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant seeking the American dream in Chicago. The book chronicles the travails of Rudkus and his family as they live and work amid the Chicago stockyards. Author Upton Sinclair had intended for the book to bring reform to the working conditions for immigrant laborers. Instead the book helped lead to food safety regulation.
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