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What new research did upton Sinclair find on wage slavery

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He found out that, Commissioned by a socialist newspaper to investigate working conditions in Chicago's meatpacking industry, journalist Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks among immigrant workers in packing plants. His exposé was a fictionalized account of a Lithuanian family whose American dream was crushed by capitalism.
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