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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California.
The Jungle is a novel by American author and muckraking-journalist Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. [1]
Upton Sinclair spoke at Liberty Hill site on May 15, 1923. Liberty Hill site in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California was the site of the 1923 strike by the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union 510 a part of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The strike was called to draw attention to the worker's low wages and poor working conditions.
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In a 1906 article in The Independent, [2] Sinclair outlined a plan for a home colony located within one-hour of New York City.Following the model proposed by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in her book The Home, Sinclair sought "authors, artists, and musicians, editors and teachers and professional men" [3] who wanted to avoid the drudgeries of domestic life.
The strike was led by members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or the "Wobblies") which bottled up shipping in the harbor. One of the largest staged protests during the strike was led by author Upton Sinclair on a small plot of land called Liberty Hill where he was arrested for reciting the First Amendment.
Oil! is a novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandal and takes place in Southern California. It is a social and political satire skewering the human ...
The campaign of the century: Upton Sinclair's race for governor of California and the birth of media politics (New York: Random House, 1992). Sinclair, Upton. The Literary Digest, October 13, 1934 End Poverty in California: The EPIC Movement; Sinclair, Upton. Gregory et al., eds. "Upton Sinclair's End Poverty in California Campaign".