Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by George Bellows, John Sloan and Honoré Daumier. A Lithuanian family arrives in Chicago's Packingtown expecting work and gets the killing floor: rotten meat, wage theft, a wedding debt that never ends, and winter in a house bought on terms designed to break them. Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks living among the stockyard workers and published in 1906; the public was so shaken by the descriptions of the meat that Congress passed a pure food law within months. Sinclair said he had aimed at the nation's heart and hit its stomach. Sixty plates by George Bellows and George Luks, among others, capture the tenements, street markets, and winter light of the immigrant city Sinclair wrote about.