Life and death of the American worker : the immigrants taking on America's largest meatpacking company / Alice Driver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driver, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tyson (Firm).

Packing-house workers--Interviews.

Packing-house workers.

Packing-houses--United States--History--Sources.

Packing-houses.

Emigration and immigration law--United States.

Emigration and immigration law.

Meat industry and trade--United States.

Meat industry and trade.

Physical Description:

xvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Immigrants taking on America's largest meatpacking company

Place of Publication:

New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2024.

Summary:

On June 27, 2011, a deadly chemical accident took place inside the Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Springdale, Arkansas, where the company is headquartered. The company quickly covered it up, although the spill left their employees injured, sick, and terrified. Over the years, Arkansas-based reporter Alice Driver was able to gain the trust of the immigrant workers who survived the accident, and she memorializes their experiences and their lives in this book.

Contents:

Author's note: On moral beauty

Working in their sleep

Safe work

The chicken nuggets recipe

Why doesn't God take me?

More dead than alive

The chaplain

The disappearances

Absence is a silent pain

The armadillos

The lawsuit

Conclusion: Robots and lab-grown meat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index.

ISBN:

9781668078822

1668078821

OCLC:

1428256002