Sinclair himself would have been pleased."-David Brody, author of Steelworkers in America: The Non-Union Era No one can fail to be the wiser for James Barrett's perceptive introduction and impeccable annotation. And so do readers-including the legions of students in American history classes-encountering for the first time Sinclair's world of Chicago packinghouses and immigrant workers. "Upton Sinclair's great muckraking novel deserves this fine new edition. James Barrett's meticulous editing has located Upton Sinclair's classic novel precisely in the social and political history of the early twentieth century."- David Montgomery, author of The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 "This is the edition of The Jungle that historians of labor and immigration history have long needed.
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