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The State will keep you safe and healthy!

The state, which is supposed to keep us healthy and safe from the vagaries of the capitalist system as portrayed by Upton Sinclair in The Jungle, can't even figure out where an outbreak of salmonella is coming from. First, it...

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STORIES FROM THE SHOP

Till Chinese manufacturing gets its Upton Sinclair, this book will do wonderfully as an eye-opener

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Real Review - There Will be Blood Blu Ray

Based on Upton Sinclair’s novel, Oil!, There Will Be Blood traces the rising fortunes of Daniel Plainview in the early days of the American oil industry. Soft-spoken and a plain-talker, Daniel develops from an oil prospector digging and blasting his own oil wells to the hands-on Boss that oversees the building of a hundred-mile pipeline [...]

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No papers, packing meat

No papers, packing meat By Robyn E. Blumner, Times Columnist The list of allegations against the Postville, Iowa, slaughterhouse recently raided by federal officials for its use of illegal immigrant workers reads like a story collectively written by Upton Sinclair, Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Agriprocessors, the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant, is at the center of [...]

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Obama's Chicago Jungle

It's an updated Upton Sinclair's Jungle --Jesse mucking up Barack's heroic story (well, the Boston Globe scored a solid hit the other day, not to mention Obama himself , and his campaign .) O'Reilly with the excerpt of the Jackson video (below). Previous post . This morning, the Chicago Tribune's John Kass : "See, Barack's been talking down to black people on this faith-based—," Jackson says during...

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The Jungle

Wow, does anyone reading this think Ms. Berry has a clue what "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair was about. Not I.

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Problem industries

Tragic that after 100 years since Upton Sinclair published The Jungle about the horror of the working condiditions in slaughter houses through the story of a young immigrant worker that we continue to see workers go home from poultry plants with terrible injuries and illnesses related to that work. The Charlotte Observer series, "The Cruelist Cuts" which many of you read with horror was the best piece...

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Upton Sinclair

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair , I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935)

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Welcome to the Jungle?

Paul Krugman thinks we're back in Upton Sinclair's Jungle with all of the diseased food scares filling the headlines -- salmonella in tomatoes being the latest. Alex Tabarrok crunches some CDC data and concludes that there is "[n]o evidence whatsoever that we are back in 'The Jungle.'"

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Bad Cow Disease

"Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken / She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it's labeled chicken." That little ditty famously summarized the message of "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair's 1906 exposé of conditions in America's meat-packing industry. Sinclair's muckraking helped Theodore Roosevelt pass the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act - and for most of the next...

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Historical novels: Norway

If you’d run your finger along a row of hardback novels on an educated shelf in suburban America in the ’40s … Upton Sinclair, Lion Feuchtwanger, Thomas MannJohn Dos Passos, Pearl Buck, Sinclair Lewis, Romain Rolland … you’d probably have touched one or two by Sigrid Undset. “She understood not herself why she [...]

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Upton Sinclair reviews Scott McLellan's memoirs

Here’s Upton Sinclair on Scott McLellan's new memoir: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Apparently McClellan came to understand many things once he was no longer on the White House payroll.

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Film Review: There Will Be Blood; Hollywood Comes to Blows with Upton Sinclair.

The 2008 Oscar for best actor went to Daniel Day Lewis for his role in the movie 'There Will Be Blood', after watching the film, which I half enjoyed, I was bemused by the accolades poured upon it. Yes Lewis is a fine actor and he gives a professional performance and his presence on the screen captures the viewer, but in many ways this is due to a gaping hole in the script and the lack of a soul within...

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Meat

Highly Recommended Since Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle , the conditions in slaughterhouses have been a source of concern and fascination to North Americans and Europeans. From Georges Franju's starkly beautiful and gruesome short documentary, Blood of the Beasts ( Le Sang des B tes ) in 1949, to Richard Linklater's recent fictionalized film adaptation of Eric Schlosser's expos Fast Food Nation...

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schenectady ponders: 18 months without our Central Library

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.” . . . Upton Sinclair, US novelist, investigative journalist & socialist politician (1878 - 1968; quote source) There are times when the inane actions of our local “leaders” (or our justice system) here [...]