The jungle: an authoritative text, contexts and backgrounds, criticism

pt. 1 : The jungle pt. 2 : Contexts and backgrounds

The author in his own words

Excerpts from the Appeal to Reason version of The jungle

[Sinclair and sentimentalism]

[An alternate ending]

[The early life of a muckraker]

What life means to me

[What socialism means to me]

[Art and propaganda].

Contemporary perspectives on the meatpacking industry

[Interview with P.D. Armour] / Theodore Dreiser

[Portrait of a Beef Baron] / Harper Leech, John Charles Carroll

[The beef trust] / Charles Edward Russell

[The perfection of capitalism] / A.M. [Algie] Simons

[Cruelty to animals] / A. [Adolphe] Smith

[A packer's rebuttal] / J. Ogden Armour

[Division of labor in the meatpacking industry] / U.S. Bureau of Corporations

[Social and economic implications of the Division of Labor] / John R. Commons.

Living conditions and the immigrant worker

From Lithuania to the Chicago stockyards : an autobiography / Antanas Kaztauskis [Ernest Poole]

[Immigrant wages and family budgets] / J.C. Kennedy

Housing conditions in Chicago, Ill. : back of the yards / Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Edith Abbott

from The social problems at the Chicago Stock Yards / Charles J. Bushnell

[Immigrant women and prostitution] / The Vice Commission of Chicago

The "poor man's club" : social functions of the urban working-class saloon / Jon M. Kingsdale

[Slaughterhouse humor] /

Anonymous.

Historical studies

[Market conditions and the beef trust] / Jimmy Skaggs

[Racial and ethnic divisions in the slaughterhouses] / Rick Halpern

[Packingtown's women workers and labor resistance] / James R. Barrett

[Muckraking, progressivism, and the Pure Food and Drug Law] / Robert M. Crunden

[The extension of federal power] /

John Braeman

[The packing industry in the ecosystem] / William Cronon

[Back to The jungle : a view from the Twenty-first Century] / Eric Schlosser.

Criticism

What Jack London says of The jungle / Jack London

The jungle / Edward Clark Marsh

The Chicago scandals : the novel which is making history / Winston Spencer Churchill

[Jurgis's conversion] / Walter Rideout

[Sinclair's documentary strategy] / June Howard

[Gender in The jungle] / Scott Derrick

[The development of The jungle] / Michael Brewster Folsom

[The ironies of progressive era authorship] / Christopher P. Wilson.