A novel by American novelist Upton Sinclair. Published in 1906. Set in a Chicago cannery, it depicts the lives of oppressed workers toiling in horrific conditions where rats swarm and tuberculosis patients spit phlegm. It exposes the contradictions hidden behind the development of American capitalism and is considered the greatest proletarian novel in America. It caused a great stir, but ironically it aroused public opinion about meat hygiene rather than the plight of the workers, and was instrumental in the enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
アメリカの小説家アプトン・シンクレアの小説。 1906年刊。シカゴの缶詰工場を舞台に,ねずみが群れ,結核患者が痰を吐き散らすという恐るべき環境のなかで働く,しいたげられた労働者の生活を描いて,アメリカ資本主義発展の裏面にひそむ矛盾をつき,アメリカにおけるプロレタリア小説の最高傑作と認められる。大きな反響を呼んだが,皮肉なことに労働者の窮状よりも食肉の衛生に対する世論を喚起し,純正食品薬事法の制定に力があった。
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