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Literary King Coal by Upton Sinclair, Fiction, Classics
Upton Sinclair; Dr Georg Brandes
Aegypan
2007
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A fellow determined to find the truth for himself about conditions in the mines, runs away from home and adopts the alias "Joe Smith." After being turned away by one coal mine for fear of Hal being a union organizer, he gets a job in another coal mine operated by the General Fuel Company, or GFC. In the mines he befriends many of the workers and realizes their misery and exploitation at the hands of the bosses. What he found there was abhorrent -- thus begins the tale of unionization and the advocacy workers' rights. Unionization, however, is easier spoken of than it is accomplished. It was a dangerous task -- for the leaders of the coal mines were hardened men, men who would not stop at petty threats and minor violence.Upton Sinclair is best known for writing The Jungle -- a novel that exposes the practices of the meat packing industry that lead to governmental investigations and changed food laws in America.
Praise for UPTON SINCLAIR and the other American Century""I look forward to all of Kevin Mattson's works of history and I've notbeen disappointed yet. Upton Sinclair is a thoughtful, well-researched, and extremely eloquently told excavation of the history of theAmerican left and, indeed, the American nation, as well as a testamentto the power of one man to influence his times. Well done.""--Eric Alterman, author of When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences""A splendid read. It reminds you that real heroes once dwelt among us. Mattson not only captures Sinclair's character, but the world he inhabited, with deft strokes whose energy and passion easily match his subject's.""--Richard Parker, author of John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics""From the meat-packing houses of Chicago to the automobile factories of Detroit to the voting booths of California, Upton Sinclair cut a wide swath as a muckraking writer who exposed the injustices rendered by American industrial capitalism. Now Kevin Mattson presents a much-needed exploration of this complex crusader. This is a thoughtful, provocative, and gripping account of an important figure who appeared equal parts intellectual, propagandist, and political combatant as he struggled to illuminate the 'other American century' inhabited by the poor and powerless.""--Steven Watts, author of The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
From Upton Sinclair's 'Goose Step' to the Neoliberal University
Daniel Morris; Harry Targ
Lulu.com
2022
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This is a unique collection of 15 essays by two Purdue University professors who use their institution as a case-in-point study of the changing nature of the American 'multiversity.' They take a book from an earlier time, Upton Sinclair's 'The Goose-Step A Study of American Education' from 1936, which exposed the capitalist corruption of the ivory tower back then and brought it up to date with more far-reaching changes today. the authors go into some detail on how the military industries are not only penetrating the universities but pushing out the liberal arts at the same time. They also include, as an appendix, a 1967 essay by SDS leader Carl Davidson, who broke some of the original ground on the subject.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Carl von Ossietzky Universit t Oldenburg, Veranstaltung: Introduction to American Studies, 11 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Am 20. September 1878 wurde Upton Sinclair als Sohn einer unverm genden S dstaatenfamilie in Baltimore/Maryland geboren. Von finanziellen Schwierigkeiten getrieben, zog es ihn und seine Familie jedoch schon wenige Jahre sp ter - sein Vater war alkoholkrank - nach New York. Aufgrund der finanziellen Probleme seiner Familie wohnte der junge Sinclair mehrfach vor bergehend bei seinen verm genden Gro eltern, die ebenfalls in New York lebten. Hierdurch wurde er schon in jungem Alter mit dem Kontrast zwischen Armut und Reichtum konfrontiert. Dieser Wechsel zwischen arm und reich sensibilisierte ihn f r eine sozialkritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Problemen der amerikanischen Arbeiterschaft und lie ihn schon fr h zum Bef rworter des Sozialismus werden. Beeinflusst durch diese v llig gegens tzlichen Milieus, die Sinclair w hrend seiner Kindheit erlebt hatte, begann er die sozialen und politischen Missst nde der industrialisierten, amerikanischen Gesellschaft des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts aufzugreifen und literarisch zu verarbeiten.
Worker's Rights in Upton Sinclair's the Jungle
Greenhaven Press
2008
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A Study Guide for Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
Cengage Learning Gale
Gale, Study Guides
2017
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The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics
Greg Mitchell
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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----"One of the five greatest books ever about an American campaign." -- The Wall Street Journal / "A compelling account"-- Jill Lepore, The New Yorker. / Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize. In 1934, voters hoping to turn the tide of the Great Depression backed an unlikely candidate for governor of California: Upton Sinclair, muckraking author of "The Jungle" and lifelong socialist. Amazingly, Sinclair swept the Democratic primary, leading a mass movement called EPIC (End Poverty in California). More than a thousand EPIC chapters formed. Alarmed, Sinclair's opponents launched an unprecedented public relations blitzkrieg to discredit him. The result was nothing less than a revolution in American politics, and with it, the era of the "spin doctor" was born. The iconic Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg created the first "attack ads" for the screen, the precursor of today's TV travesties. Hollywood took its first all-out plunge into politics and money started to play the tune in our political process. In a riveting, blow-by-blow narrative featuring the likes of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Louis B. Mayer, H. L. Mencken, William Randolph Hearst, Will Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, and a Who's Who of political, literary and entertainment stars, Greg Mitchell brings to life the outrageous campaign that forever transformed the electoral process. A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, it served as the basis for one episode in the award-winning PBS documentary "The Great Depression" "Sizzling, rambunctiously useful." -Los Angeles Times "Fascinating....a lively, anecdote-filled history." -The New York Times Book Review "To read The Campaign of the Century is to understand how the business of electing officials began to get so colossally out of hand." -Newsweek "America witnessed a transforming experience, as Greg Mitchell makes clearin his vivid chronicle." -Wall Street Journal "There are lessons to be learned herein. Politicians learned them long ago, to the general detriment. Perhaps now Mitchell can help the rest of us learn them." -Washington Post Book World
Study Guide to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Influence Publishers
2020
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, a novel portraying the harsh conditions and exploitation of immigrants in major US cities in the early twentieth century. As a novel of the turn of the twentieth century, The Jungle reflects not only the American scene of Sinclair's young manhood but also many of his own life circumstances. It becomes important to view the novel in terms of both his life and his times. Moreover, Sinclair's journalistic background provided him with the opportunity to expose corruption in business and government. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Sinclair's classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
The representation of immigrant life in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
Eva Deinzer
Grin Publishing
2009
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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut f r Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Culture and Society During the Progressive Era, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In my paper I would primarily like to demonstrate how Sinclair represents the immigrant life in his book and how it ties with the reality at that time. However, before coming to this I would like to outline the immigration to and the urbanization in the United States in the Progressive Era and give a short summary of The Jungle.
The Depiction and Function of Ethnicity in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
Matthias Billen
Grin Publishing
2011
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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,3, Universit t Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1. Introduction "They had dreamed of freedom; of a chance to look about them and learn something; to be decent and clean, to see their child to grow up and be strong" (TJ: 168).1 However, the Lithuanian protagonists of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle do not have a chance to fulfil their dreams. They fail, suppressed by the capitalist elite and the daily distress of surviving in the economic jungle of Chicago at the beginning of the 20th century. With his description of the industrial conditions in the meat-packing industry Sinclair gained recognition throughout the US. But, "as a work of modern fiction measured against the aesthetic achievements of a Henry James or a William Faulkner or a James Joyce, The Jungle hardly merits any discussion at all."2 The value of The Jungle as a literary product cannot be traced back to certain stylistic devices, psychological density or any other criteria of so-called "high literature." Nevertheless, it is one of the most important novels of its time and, due to its political impact, even one of the most politically influential books in the first decades of the last century. The author became a "muckraker," stirring up nationwide attention due to the detailed description of the hygienic conditions in the meatprocessing industry, basing this description on mere facts he gathered from his own observations3 which leads to the characterisation as "documentary novel."4 "Those who consider Sinclair insignificant base their rejection upon aesthetic criteria, whereas Sinclair was concerned with the effect of his writings upon his audience - a very different matter."5 Directly aiming at the hardships of the Lithuanian and other Eastern European immigrants in Chicago, he intended "to make literature functional"6, i.e. to use it as a device of directing more attention to the economic suppression in "Packingtown," t
American Democrat for Social Justice and World Peace - Upton Sinclair's (1878-1968) Fiction
Jakabfi Anna
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
2015
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Literarische Kulturkritik ALS Dekodierung Von Macht Und Werten Am Beispiel Ausgewaehlter Romane Von Upton Sinclair, Frank Norris, John DOS Passos Und Sinclair Lewis
Franz-Peter Spaunhorst
Peter Lang GmbH
1987
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Die amerikanische Kultur ist umfassend nur mit Hilfe eines kulturtheoretischen Konzeptes zu analysieren, welches sich fur empirische wie hermeneutische Disziplinen der Amerikastudien/American Studies eignet. Die vorliegende Untersuchung geht davon aus, dass 1. Kulturen sich durch spezifische Werteraster unterscheiden, welche die Kommunikation pragen, 2. in jeder Kultur Machtverhaltnisse herrschen, die sich ebenfalls in Kommunikation ausdrucken. Dementsprechend wird ein Grobmodell von Kultur als gleichzeitig macht- und wertgepragter Kommunikation entwickelt und mit Hilfe eines daraus abgeleiteten Verfahrens gezeigt, dass literarische Texte als kritische, Macht und Werte dekodierende Analyse kultureller Epochen gelesen werden konnen."
A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Materials From the Upton Sinclair Archives
Bl Lilly Library (Indiana University; Ronald Gottesman; Upton 1878-1968 Sinclair
Hassell Street Press
2021
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A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Materials From the Upton Sinclair Archives
Bl Lilly Library (Indiana University; Ronald Gottesman; Upton 1878-1968 Sinclair
Hassell Street Press
2021
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The Sinclair Experiments Demonstrating Telepathy: Bulletin No. 16
Walter Franklin Prince; Upton Sinclair
Literary Licensing, LLC
2013
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The Sinclair Experiments Demonstrating Telepathy: Bulletin No. 16 is a book written by Walter Franklin Prince. The book provides a detailed account of the experiments conducted by Upton Sinclair, a renowned author and social activist, to demonstrate the existence of telepathy. The experiments were conducted in the early 20th century and involved a group of people who were placed in a room and asked to transmit thoughts to each other without using any verbal or physical cues.Prince, who was a renowned psychologist and researcher, was involved in the experiments and provides a detailed analysis of the results. The book also includes transcripts of the experiments, as well as Prince's commentary on the significance of the findings.The Sinclair Experiments Demonstrating Telepathy: Bulletin No. 16 is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the paranormal or the science of telepathy. It provides a unique insight into the early days of telepathy research and the groundbreaking work of Upton Sinclair and Walter Franklin Prince.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
The Sinclair Experiments Demonstrating Telepathy: Bulletin No. 16
Walter Franklin Prince; Upton Sinclair
Literary Licensing, LLC
2013
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Sonnets by Mary Craig Sinclair
Mary Craig Sinclair; Upton Sinclair
Literary Licensing, LLC
2013
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Sonnets By Mary Craig Sinclair is a collection of 70 sonnets written by the American author Mary Craig Sinclair. The sonnets are divided into five sections, each exploring a different theme such as love, nature, and spirituality. Sinclair's writing is characterized by its lyrical beauty and emotional depth, as she explores the complexities of the human experience through the form of the sonnet. The collection is a testament to Sinclair's skill as a poet and her ability to capture the essence of life's most profound moments in verse. Whether read for pleasure or studied for its literary merit, Sonnets By Mary Craig Sinclair is a timeless work of poetry that will resonate with readers of all ages and backgrounds.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.