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1) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicago’s stockyards and the laborer’s struggle against industry and “wage slavery.” It was an immediate bestseller and led to new regulations that forever changed workers’ rights and the meatpacking industry. A direct descendant of Dickens’s Hard Times, it remains the most influential workingman’s novel in American literature.
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