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Explain the setting of The Jungle by uptown Sinclair

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"Packingtown," Chicago's Meatpacking District in the early 1900s. ... What makes The Jungle important is the setting in Chicago's meatpacking factories. Upton Sinclair combined his own socialist ideals and agenda with some really hard-hitting descriptions of Packingtown and its poor sanitation and hygiene.

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