![]() In a minute or two, however, it began slowly to revolve, and then the men upon each side of it sprang to work. He was resting for the moment, for the wheel had stopped while men were cleaning up. Upon both sides of this wheel there was a narrow space, into which came the hogs at the end of their journey in the midst of them stood a great burly Negro, bar-armed and bare-chested. At the head there was a great iron wheel, about twenty feet in circumference, with rings here and there along its edge. It was a long, narrow room, with a gallery along it for visitors. ![]() Here were the chute, with its river of hogs, all patiently toiling upward there was a place for them to rest and cool off, and then through another passageway they went into a room from which there is no returning for hogs. Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle gives us a detailed, gruesome picture of the meat-packing industry. ![]()
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