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When he finally reunites with the family, he finds Marija working as a prostitute to support them. He eventually returns to Chicago as an itinerant laborer, and for a time, works for the corrupt political machine of the city.

Jurgis, by this point, has had enough, so he leaves town and spends some time wandering the surrounding countryside as a hobo. Several members of the family die over the years.

The family settles in a house they can barely afford and is poorly constructed, and later on, Jurgis is fired from his job. This job, however hard he works at it, is not enough by itself to support his family, so several of the other members, like Ona's cousin Marija Berczynskas and his brother-in-law Stanislovas (who is only a child), must take up work as well. Settling down in the Packingtown area of Chicago, Jurgis initially works in the meat packing plants. The novel chronicles the life of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus, who marries a young woman named Ona at the beginning of the novel, and with her and his extended family, moves to the United States to seek new opportunities. However, it is best remembered today for being the catalyst of today's food standards. It was the result of his muckraking journalism on the shabby treatment of workers in meat packing plants in Chicago. The Jungle is a novel by socialist journalist Upton Sinclair, first published in 1906.