Any Way You Cut It
Meat Processing and Small-town America
$28.41
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
24 November 1995
Summary
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, Donald Stull, Michael Broadway, and David Gri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780700607228 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0700607226 |
| Author: | Donald D. Stull, etc., Michael J. Broadway, David Griffith |
| Publisher: | University Press of Kansas |
| Imprint: | University Press of Kansas |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 1995 |
| Weight: | 395g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 151mm x 228mm |
| Series: | Rural America |
Critics Review
“These essays encapsulate a wide range of the most recent social science research on the nature of work and concerns of workers in the modern meatpacking industry. Several essays also describe the impact of plants and their workers on various small, isolated communities, and some include prescriptions for change.”–Journal of the West
“This book does not just criticize a powerful and polluting industry, it offers positive policy suggestions, many simple and well known, on how to control and contain the process.”–Annals of Iowa
“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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