At the turn of the century America was in the face of economic downfall. Laissez Faire Industrialism had been in place and citizens were at the disposal of big business. Poor working conditions and poverty were the norm in a time where Socialism was an irrelevant ideology. Big business was making the government rich. But according to Upton Sinclair and his "Conditions at the Slaughterhouse," unsafe and repulsive sanitary conditions were at play, putting thousands …showed first 75 words of 730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 730 total…faced by big business. The voices of workers were not often heard in the struggle towards Socialism. Not because they agreed with the ways things were handled or how they were treated, but because they constantly lived in fear of losing their jobs. It took the ideas and intelligence of Sinclair to make the workers voices heard, so people would no longer have to worry about hazardous jobs and even more so, bio-hazardous meat products.