The Jungle by Upton Sinclair on Free Audio Book Download

Listen to the classic muckraking novel about early 20th century immigrants in Chicago and their hardships working in the meatpacking plants. American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair published the novel in 1906 and it created such a public outcry against the American meatpacking industry that the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1907 was passed. Sinclair spent seven weeks in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago to research his novel. His fictional interpretation of what he discovered exposed working class poverty and the harsh living and working conditions they dealt with. This unabridged audio book is available to read and download on MP3 from Lit2Go.