From the Book - First edition.
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] --
[The early life of a muckraker] --
[What socialism means to me] --
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
[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] /
[The packing industry in the ecosystem] / William Cronon --
[Back to The jungle : a view from the Twenty-first Century] / Eric Schlosser.
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.