The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, published in 1906, remains one of the most widely known pieces of realist literature from the early 20th century. An expose of the brutal exploitation of immigrant workers in Chicago’s meatpacking industry, told through the struggles of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus and his family, The Jungle—both as a novel and as a work of investigative journalism—takes on renewed importance today with rising levels of workplace death and injury, and amidst workers’ fightback for independent control of workplace safety through the independent investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr. initiated by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).