Literary Representations of Progressive Era Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States and the Question of Genre: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906)
Literary Representations of Progressive Era Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States and the Question of Genre: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906)

Author(s): Cansu Özge Özmen
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Labor relations, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: USA; migration; Lithuanian immigrants; literary representations; literature; Upton Sinclair; The Jungle; labor relations;
Summary/Abstract: On August 4, 1904, American journalist Ernest Poole published a short account in Independent called “From Lithuania to the Chicago Stockyards, An Autobiography: Antanas Kaztauskis”. He had visited Chicago as a press agent for the workers’ union and sought to investigate the labour movement among the meatpacking workers. He stayed in Chicago for six weeks and conducted extensive interviews with workers who lived in what is called the “Back of the Yards” neighbourhood in the west and south of Packingtown, a residential area predominantly populated by immigrants.

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