Any Way You Cut It

by Stull, Donald D.; Broadway, Michael J.; Griffith, David

• ISBN13: 9780700607228
• ISBN10: 0700607226
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Ingram Book Co

Summary

"Exciting and timely, touching on an industrial sector generally overlooked in discussions of the U.S. economy. This accessible and well-written book will be widely read and much debated". -- Mark Moberg, author of Citrus, Strategy, and Class.

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Making Meat	p. 1
From City to Countryside: Recent Changes in the Structure and Location of the Meat- and Fish-Processing Industries	p. 17
On the Horns of a Dilemma: The U.S. Meat and Poultry Industry	p. 41
Killing Them Softly: Work in Meatpacking Plants and What It Does to Workers	p. 61
Dances with Cows: Beefpacking's Impact on Garden City, Kansas, and Lexington, Nebraska	p. 85
Pork, Poultry, and Newcomers in Storm Lake, Iowa	p. 109
Hay Trabajo: Poultry Processing, Rural Industrialization, and the Latinization of Low-Wage Labor	p. 129
New Immigrants in an Old Industry: Blue Crab Processing in Pamlico Country, North Carolina	p. 153
Industries, Immigrants, and Illness in the New Midwest	p. 187
The Kill Line: Facts of Life, Proposals for Change	p. 213
Conclusion: Joe Hill Died for Your Sins. Empowering Minority Workers in the New Industrial Labor Force	p. 231
Index	p. 265
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