"So spoke an orator upon the platform; and two thousand pairs of eyes were fixed upon him, and two thousand voices were cheering his every sentence. The orator had been the head of the city's relief bureau in the stockyards, until the sight of misery and corruption had made him sick. He was young, hungry-looking, full of fire; and as he swung his long arms and beat up the crowd, to Jurgis he seemed the very spirit of the revolution. 'Organize! Organize! Organize!'—that was his cry."—Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle, 1906 What resulted from the public outcry related to The Jungle?

Increased conservation efforts

Backlash against labor unions

Regulation of food quality

Rejection of political machines