The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessness among many workers.
Like most of Sin.
A review by the writer Jack London called it, "the Uncle Tom\'s Cabin of wage slavery." This is the novel that Upton Sinclair used to show horrific practices in the meatpacking industry in the first part of the twentieth century.
These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power.
The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessness among many workers