In pursuit of jobs and economic development, many rural communities have attracted large meat, poultry, and fish processing plants owned by transnational corporations. But what they don't bargain for is the increase in crime, homelessness, school overcrowding, housing shortages, social disorder, cyclical migration, and poverty that inevitably follows. To shed light on the forces that drive the meat industry and the communities where it locates, this book brings together the varying perspectives of anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, journalists, and industry specialists. These experts show that, despite increased automation, meat, poultry, and fish processing remain labor intensive create problems for employees, host communities, and government regulatory agencies. The authors explore the factors that sway industry and community decision making and propose alternate routes communities and meat processors can take to reverse deteriorating conditions and avoid potentially explosive predicaments.
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"The premise of this book is 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: The Politics of Development in Southern Belize
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Donald D. Stull is professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas. Michael Broadway is associate professor of geography at SUNY-Geneseo. David Griffith is assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at East Carolina University.
Contributors: Steve Bjerklie, Michael J. Broadway, Lourdes Gouveia, Mark A. Grey, David Griffith, Robert A. Hackenberg, Bob Hall, Gary Kukulka, Donald D. Stull
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- Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration by Louise Lamphere on page 107, page 211, and page 264
- Working Poor: Farmworkers in the United States by David Griffith on page 14, page 150, and page 185
- Joe Hill by Gibbs Smith on page 253, page 263, and page 264
- The Garden City: Past, present and future (Studies in History, Planning and the Environment, No 15) by Stephen Ward on page 39, and page 82
- Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico (Studies in Demography) (No. 1) by Douglas S. Massey on page 15, and page 263
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- Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture) by Deborah Fink on 4 pages
- Communities Of Work: Rural Restructuring In Local & Global Contexts (Research in International Studies. Global and Comparative Studies Series, No. 2) by William W. Falk on page 78, and page 217
- Manifest Destinies: Americanizing Immigrants and Internationalizing Americans by David W. Haines on page 51, and page 53
- What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank in Back Matter
- Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities (Advances in Agroecology) by Cornelia Flora on page 45
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