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  1. A Century of Meatpacking Unionism - Book Reviews
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
  2. The Jungle
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906
    Upton Sinclair's sixth novel and first popular success, written when he was sent by the socialist weekly newspaper Appeal to Reason to Chicago to investigate conditions in the stockyards. Though intended to create sympathy for the exploited and poorly treated immigrant workers in the meat-packing industry, The Jungle instead aroused widespread public indignation at the quality of and impurities in processed meats and thus helped bring about the passage of federal food-inspection laws. Sinclair ironically commented at the time, "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach." The Jungle is the most enduring of the works of the "muckrakers".
  3. The Jungle at 100
    Against The Current vol. 115

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    When it was first published as a book in 1906, The Jungle’s graphic revelations about the American meatpacking industry, combined with its compelling story of an immigrant worker’s brutal degradation, made it an immediate sensation.
  4. Meatpackers
    An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality

    Resource Type: Book
    Provides an important window into race and racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest - mostly African-American - talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines.
  5. 24 Days in Brooks
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    Centred on the 24-day Lakeside Packers strike, this film is a nuanced portrait of people working together for change. They are people like Peter Jany Khwai, who escaped war in Sudan and Edil Hassan, a devout Muslim born in Somalia.

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