Bloodworth, William A., Jr. Upton Sinclair. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977.

Harris, Leon A. Upton Sinclair: American Rebel. New York: Crowell, 1975. The standard, most in-depth biography.

Sinclair, Upton. Autobiography. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962.

Yoder, Jon A. Upton Sinclair. New York: Ungar, 1975.

Barrett, James R. Work and Community in the jungle: Chicago’s Packing-house Workers, 1894-1922. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Blinderman, Abraham, ed. Critics on Upton Sinclair. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1975. Includes contemporary reviews and responses to the novel.

DeGruson, Gene, ed. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle: The Lost First Edition. Memphis and Atlanta: St. Lukes Press, 1988. A reconstruction of the unedited serial version of the novel.

Halpern, Rick. Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses, 1904-54. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Jensen, Carl. Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000.

Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. 1942. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Classic study of American writers in the period 1890-1940, with a strong section on Sinclair and the muckrakers.

Pizer, Donald, ed. Documents of American Realism and Naturalism. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.

Rideout, Walter B. The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954: Some Interrelations of Literature and Society. 1956. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Shannon, David A. The Socialist Party of America: A History. New York: Macmillan, 1955.

Weinberg, Arthur and Lila, eds. 1961. The Muckrakers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process. First edition 1939 as Über den Prozess der Zivilisation. Translated from the German by Edmund Jephcott: New York: Urizon, 1978.

Giedion, Siegfried. Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History. 1948. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. 2001. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

Sinclair, Upton. Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation. Published by the author in Pasadena, CA, in 1925. Reprint of the author’s edition: Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1975.