C-SPAN video clips from "American Writers" series. Discusses Sinclair and Chicago meatpacking industry, as well as immigration, industrialization, and the media at the turn of the century. (Click on photo)Slaughterhouse Humor (a poem)
Mary had a little lamb
And when she saw it sicken,
She shipped it off to Packingtown,
And now it's labeled chicken.
-Anonymous
From The Muckrakers: Crusading Journalists Who Changed America (Cook)
