Cutting Into The Meatpacking Line

Workers And Change In The Rural Midwest

BY DEBORAH FINK

Brief Description:
Quaker Deborah Fink draws both on interviews and on firsthand experience working on the production floor of a pork-processing plant. She weaves a fascinating account of the meatpacking industry's history in Iowa - a history, she notes, that has been experienced differently by male and female, immigrant and native-born, white and black workers. Indeed, argues Fink, these differences are a key factor in the ongoing creation of the rural working class. She looks within rural midwestern culture itself to examine the class, gender, and ethnic contradictions that allowed-indeed welcomed-the meatpacking industry's development.

Chapel Hill 1998 235 PP. Paper

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