1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
Sinclair believed a man must be dishonest, liar, and deceiving to succeed in Packingtown.
No one succeeded by being a good worker.
2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.
A plant owner's main goal was to make as much money as possible no matter how they went about doing it.
3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
Sinclair means that to the business owners, no man was more important than the profit so if someone dissatisfied them, they wouldn't think twice about replacing them.
When it was published, The Jungle was so shocking that it launched a
government investigation of the meatpacking industry. The investigation
eventually led to the establishment of laws regulating the industry.
Using the internet, research an area that our government regulates now
(meat packing, environment, pharmaceuticals) and report how this is
enforced today.
Today, meat packing is enforced by routinely inspections of the meat products as well as policies and examinations of the safety of the worker's environment by the OSHA.
