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Because of his novel the jungle, which dealt with conditions in the meat packing industry, the pure food and drug act and the meat inspection act were passed. The flivver king talks about the rise of henry ford and the wage reform. Based on the 1914 and 1915 colorado coal strikes, king coal describes the abhorrent conditionsfaced by workers in the western united states coal mining. King coal by upton sinclair on free audio book download. Librivox recording of king coal, by upton sinclair. New york times king coal is perhaps as fine a labor novel as could be written. Read king coal a novel by upton sinclair available from rakuten kobo. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Previous part 1 next part 3 they came to the threeroom cabin which was both jerrys home. September 20, 1878 november 25, 1968 was an american writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
His father, upton beall sinclair, was a liquor salesman and an alcoholic he drank himself to death. To ask other readers questions about king coal, please sign up. As in an earlier work, the jungle, sinclair expresses his socialist viewpoints from the perspective of a single protagonist, hal warner, caught up in the schemes and plots of the oppressive american. The collection is complimented by an author biography. King coal upton sinclair audiobook and ebook all you can books. This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more.
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As in an earlier work, the jungle, sinclair expresses his socialist viewpoints from the perspective of a single protagonist, hal warner, caught up in the schemes and plots of the oppressive american capitalist system. King coal is a 1917 novel by upton sinclair that describes the poor working. The project gutenberg ebook of king coal, by upton sinclair this ebook is for the use of. Upton sinclairs first novel about the conditions of miners in america, and documents the strikes of 191415 in colorado.
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Sinclairs work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1943. Full text books archive of free books, texts, documents, classic literature, drama and poetry. September 20, 1878 november 25, 1968 was an american author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Upton sinclair 18781968 king coal is a book by upton sinclair, first published in 1917, that exposes the dirty working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western united states during the 1910s.
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