How would you define packingtown from Upton Sinclair

Well how do you mean define it? It is a world where the hopeful come to work hard and build a life, but where hope is destroyed. It is fierce, vicious, and cruel. It is a competition in which all participants are equally guaranteed to lose. It is crowded, close, cold, unhealthy, and unforgiving. It is a place of injuries, death, and despair. Need any more?