1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
Sinclair believed that the qualities of people needed to be in order. He believed that the ability to work on your own and mind your own business was a necessity. If you were easily distracted, then you were not Packingtown material.
2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal?
The main goal of the plant owner was to make as much money as possible. The matter wasn't how the money was made, or who it hurt. All that mattered was the amount of money made..
3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
What Sinclair meant by this quotation, was that basically the money was more important than the workers. As long as there was money being made, the quality of workers lives wasn't an issue.
According to Upton Sinclair, the only way to rise up the ranks in the meat packing industry was by telling lies and spying on your fellow coworkers. If you ever met a man rising up in Packingtown, he was a knave.
the main goal of the meat packing owners was to make as much money as humanly possible. One tactic they used to do this was to use calve meat. Which was not up to standards when it came to food. As well as using low quality meat, if you were injured in the process, you would be fired because you no longer can provide help.