Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair was a muckraker who was born in Baltimore on September 20, 1878. He was very religious and had an incredible fascination for literature. He was very intelligent and entered New York City College when he was just fourteen. He wrote about the living conditions in Chicago's meat packaging factories. He wrote 48 books but his most popular is The Jungle. This exposed the meat factory conditions causing an awareness in the public that took part in the passage a few months later when the government responded to the reform in 1906 creating the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. He published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposure of American journalism, that made the issue of yellow journalism and limits of "free press" in the United States. Four years later, the first code of ethics for journalism was created.

This was one of the covers for his book The Jungle that exposed the meat factories like the one shown below.

This is a political cartoon representing the fact that he had exposed the horrific conditions of meat factories.

This video represents what he truly exposed to the rest of the world and some of the deadly conditions these workers experienced everyday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ppaJwQ9UM