While upton sinclair's the jungle exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry, the author initially wrote it in order to a) increase public awareness of monopoly practices. b) increase public awareness of government corruption. c) expose the attempt of the government to control american industry. d) expose the unfair work environment experienced by poor immigrant laborers.

The correct answer is option D) "expose the unfair work environment experienced by poor immigrant laborers". The American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair was a political activist that insisted on the hardship labors that immigrants must endure in order to survive during the 1900s. Sinclair published the book "The Jungle" in 1904 to expose this unfair work conditions and he used the meatpacking industry as an example of the unfair situation.

many women had to remain at home while husbands found work.

explanation:

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”