Upton Sinclair Program
Video Clip List
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| Clip # |
Start Time
| End Time
| Description
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| 1 |
0:32.9 |
1:56.8 |
Facts about meatpacking industry and Chicago |
| 2 |
1:56.9 |
4:24.8 |
Major themes in the novel were: beginning of the Industrial Revolution, role of immigrants, growth of modern communication |
| 3 |
4:31.1 |
6:34.4 |
Discussion of past and present Chicago stockyards, design |
| 4 |
6:35.1 |
10:48.1 |
Predominantly Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Balkans, Germany, Latvia, etc. came to the area, stayed within their ethnic groups; "Back of the Yards"; role of World War II in unifying the ethnicities
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| 5 |
11:50.1 |
14:35.3 |
Sinclair wrote about the savagery of capitalism, socialist writer; America's reaction to The Jungle
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| 6 |
14:35.7 |
17:01.3 |
Tour of slaughter house, refrigeration |
| 7 |
17:34.3 |
19:17.4 |
Impact of railroad on meat industry/Chicago, change in American diet as a result
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| 8 |
19:17.6 |
20:37.2 |
Child labor, children had to help support families |
| 9 |
20:47.6 |
23:09.1 |
Sinclair a "progressive," formed a utopian community in New Jersey
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| 10 |
24:24.2 |
27:02.4 |
Sinclair's relationship with Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, ran for office as a socialist, later ran for governor of California as a Democrat |
| 11 |
27:02.5 |
28:45.3 |
Speculation on The Jungle, debate over whether it should be used in the classroom |
| 12 |
29:08.5 |
29:56.8 |
Quote from the book about the unsanitary conditions in the slaughterhouses |
| 13 |
30:00 |
31:16.4 |
Competion between Chicago's stockyards and other cities; Chicago set the meat prices for the nation |
| 14 |
31:24.1 |
32:23.1 |
Mary Craig, Sinclair's second wife, was his soulmate and partner |
| 15 |
32:23.1 |
37.24.3 |
Comparison of past and present meatpacking labor conditions time, no unions, immigrant workers still in danger today
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| 16 |
37:26.8 |
39:25.0 |
Decentralization of meatpacking, slaughterhouses left Chicago in the 1950's for non-union cities |
| 17 |
40:07.6 |
42:25.8 |
Sinclair maintained his socialist beliefs throughout his life, isolated from the party because he supported World War I and II |
| 18 |
44:38.4 |
46.33:33.7 |
Meat inspection in the packing houses, veterinarians brought in to examine the animals, system corrupt |
| 19 |
46:35:2 |
49:25.6 |
Miniat family, descripton/tour of Miniat plant |
| 20 |
49:25.7 |
51:23.0 |
Miniat's new processing plant, created when it became difficult to compete when stockyards closed |
| 21 |
51:23.1 |
53:05.2 |
Socialism today vs Socialism in Sinclair's time |
| 22 |
53:11.2 |
54:56:2 |
Meat processing is labor intensive work, injury rates |
| 23 |
54:57.5 |
56:53.4 |
Immediate reaction and change to meat packing process once The Jungle was published, small companies couldn't survive, large companies flourished
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| 24 |
56:53.5 |
57:29.5 |
Sinclair's main purpose with The Jungle was to expose wage slavery, America thought the main purpose was unclean meat; Wholesale Meat Act |
| 25 |
57:30.1 |
59:04.6 |
USDA's power over the meat packing plants, Bubbly Creek |
| 26 |
59:47.4 |
1:02:37 |
Today's meat packing violations, recalls, cruelty to animals |
| 27 |
1:03:20 |
1:07:08 |
Sinclair's relationship with the weatlhy in Pasadena, major celebrity in Hollywood; controversy over his political beliefs, many didn't want to publish him |
| 28 |
1:07:54 |
1:10:24 |
Sinclair wasn't an animal activist, prejudiced against black workers; quote about brutality of hog killings |
| 29 |
1:10:25 |
1:13:37 |
Video of sheep killings; Americans want to consume the meat but not think about its animal origins |
| 30 |
1:13:38 |
1:15:44 |
Large presence of the USDA at the plants; railroads still used in movement of meat products |
| 31 |
1:16:40 |
1:18:17 |
Life after running for governor and losing |
| 32 |
1:19:14 |
1:22:01 |
Relating Sinclair to the newer progressive movements; entering a new progressive era |
| 33 |
1:22:38 |
1:23:41 |
The issues dealing with migration of immigrants to Chicago |
| 34 |
1:26:00 |
1:28:56 |
Short biography of Sinclair |
| 35 |
1:29:03 |
1:29:35 |
Statistics about Chicago and the meatpacking and slaughterhouse industry at the turn of the century |
| 36 |
1:32:37 |
1:33:41 |
The impact of immigrants in that period of time; Chicago and the great migration
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| 37 |
1:33:43 |
1:34:02 |
The diversity of Chicago |
| 38 |
1:34:17 |
1:36:31 |
The number of immigrants working in the packing plants; turnover issues with them; average wage and working hours |
| 39 |
1:37:59 |
1:39:10 |
Life in 1906 |
| 40 |
1:39:11 |
1:40:11 |
How Sinclair dramatized life of the early 90's in his books
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| 41 |
1:40:49 |
1:42:29 |
Sinclair's book The Brass Check |
| 42 |
01:48:32 |
01:50:04 |
The developing of the meat inspection process; animal brutality issues |
| 43 |
01:50:04 |
01:50:39 |
Industrialization and the role of the USDA |
| 44 |
01:50:44 |
01:51:46 |
The story and legend of Theodore Roosevelt's reaction after he read The Jungle |
| 45 |
01:53:37 |
01:55:03 |
The importance of labor unions
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| 46 |
01:55:48 |
01:57:07 |
The history and future of the industrialization of food |
| 47 |
01:59:33 |
02:01:54 |
Sinclair's book The Money Changers |
| 48 |
02:01:55 |
02:03:04 |
Sinclair's 2nd best-selling book; recommended book to read after The Jungle |
| 49 |
02:03:54 |
02:04:39 |
Sinclair's book The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 |
| 50 |
02:06:01 |
02:07:29 |
The documentary about the 1936 Epic Campaign |
| 51 |
02:08:05 |
02:08:43 |
The most graphic passage from The Jungle |
| 52 |
02:08:48 |
02:09:58 |
The gains and losses The Jungle brought to the meatpacking industry |
| 53 |
02:10:17 |
02:10:39 |
When and why Sinclair moved back to New Jersey |
| 54 |
02:11:04 |
02:11:49 |
The Progressive Movement |
| 55 |
02:13:03 |
02:15:21 |
International outrage over The Jungle; the profitability of The Jungle
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| 56 |
02:15:36 |
02:16:48 |
The advent of "industrial films"; Sinclair's remarks
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| 57 |
02:17:52 |
02:19:10 |
Globalization |
| 58 |
02:20:32 |
02:21:53 |
A comparison of the books The Jungle and Fast Food Nation |
| 59 |
02:28:50 |
02:29:44 |
A comparison of Chicago's immigrants then and now |
| 60 |
02:30:13 |
02:30:47 |
Will there ever be another book that has the same kind of social impact as The Jungle?
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