Which Progressive Era issue does the passage address?
Read the passage from a book written by journalist
Upton Sinclair during the Progressive Era.
There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in
the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped
and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs
the meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who
did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even
when he saw one there were things that went into the
sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a
tidbit.
-The Jungle,
Upton Sinclair
the rights of women and child workers
o corruption among government officials
poor living conditions in tenement buildings
consumer safety and poor business practices
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