Upton Sinclair Papers 1911-1964

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Upton Sinclair Papers 1911-1964

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Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 - November 25, 1968) was a socialist and the author of (1906), an expose of dangerous and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards, who, in 1934, ran for governor of California on the Democratic Party ticket, basing his campaign around the slogan "End Poverty in California" (EPIC). The collection includes correspondence and manuscripts by Sinclair, bibliographies of his writings, as well as critical essays relating to his life and work. The Jungle

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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