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Today in Labor History June 30, 1906: United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in response to Upton Sinclair's novel, “The Jungle,” which exposed atrocious sanitary conditions in Chicago meat packing industry. Sinclair intended his book not only to bring attention to the public health threat of the squalid working conditions, but also to the racism faced by Chicago’s largely immigrant meat workers, as well as the corruption of both the politicians and union officials. However, the public was most outraged by the prospect of getting food poisoning from the rotten meat.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #meatpacking #publichealth #thejungle #uptonsinclair #union #corruption #foodsafety #chicago #workplacesafety #immigration #fiction #novel #book #author #writer @bookstadon

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Today in Labor History June 30, 1906: United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in response to Upton Sinclair's novel, “The Jungle,” which exposed atrocious sanitary conditions in Chicago meat packing industry. Sinclair intended his book not only to bring attention to the public health threat of the squalid working conditions, but also to the racism faced by Chicago’s largely immigrant meat workers, as well as the corruption of both the politicians and union officials. However, the public was most outraged by the prospect of getting food poisoning from the rotten meat.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #meatpacking #publichealth #thejungle #uptonsinclair #union #corruption #foodsafety #chicago #workplacesafety #immigration #fiction #novel #book #author #writer @bookstadon

Front cover of The Jungle (1906), written by Upton Sinclair and published by Doubleday, Page & Company. Image shows buildings with smokestacks spewing smoke. By Unknown author - This file has been extracted from another file, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90013862


Can someone explain me what's the deal with #pointy ears in #fiction?
I don't get it.
Of all organs, why ears and why pointy?
Wrong answers only.



#Inktober is here. I'm not one for drawing or painting, but will attempt to #write a paragraph or a few lines each day following the prompts, so it comes together as one story. I won't plan ahead, I'll just see how it goes.

Inktober

#writing #mywriting #fiction #microfiction