{"product_id":"the-jungle","title":"The Jungle","description":"\u003cp\u003eUpton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpton Sinclair’s vivid depiction of the horrors of Chicago’s stockyards and slaughterhouses aroused such public indignation that a government investigation was called, eventually resulting in the passage of pure food laws. More than a hundred years later, The Jungle continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes an Introduction by Alicia Mischa Renfroe\u003cbr\u003eand an Afterword by Dr. Barry Sears\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beth's Books and Brews","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62243129917810,"sku":"9780451472557","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/4272\/1138\/files\/9780451472557.jpg?v=1787855790","url":"https:\/\/bethsbooksandbrews.com\/products\/the-jungle","provider":"Beth's Books and Brews","version":"1.0","type":"link"}