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- catalog abstract "The nostalgic vision of a rural Midwest populated by independent family farmers hides the reality that rural wage labor has been integral to the region's development, says Deborah Fink. Focusing on the porkpacking industry in Iowa, Fink investigates the experience of the rural working class and highlights its significance in shaping the state's economic, political, and social contours. Fink draws both on interviews and on her own 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. Other writers have denounced the new meatpacking companies for their ruthless destruction of both workers and communities. Fink sustains this criticism, which she augments with a discussion of union action, but also goes beyond it. She looks within rural midwestern culture itself to examine the class, gender, and ethnic contradictions that allowed - indeed welcomed - the meatpacking industry's development.".
- catalog alternative "Cutting into the meat packing line".
- catalog contributor b10698037.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "1. What Is Your Problem, Ruth?: An Anthropologist Gets a Job -- 2. What More Better Work Could You Ask For?: Perry Working Men and Meatpacking -- 3. Frankly, She's Not Worth It: Working Through Gender -- 4. Who's Francisco?: Race/Ethnicity and Rural Iowa Workers -- 5. Hey, You Guys Are Not Entitled: The Workings of Class".
- catalog description "Fink draws both on interviews and on her own 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-225) and index.".
- catalog description "Other writers have denounced the new meatpacking companies for their ruthless destruction of both workers and communities. Fink sustains this criticism, which she augments with a discussion of union action, but also goes beyond it. She looks within rural midwestern culture itself to examine the class, gender, and ethnic contradictions that allowed - indeed welcomed - the meatpacking industry's development.".
- catalog description "The nostalgic vision of a rural Midwest populated by independent family farmers hides the reality that rural wage labor has been integral to the region's development, says Deborah Fink. Focusing on the porkpacking industry in Iowa, Fink investigates the experience of the rural working class and highlights its significance in shaping the state's economic, political, and social contours.".
- catalog extent "xv, 235 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Cutting into the meatpacking line.".
- catalog identifier "0807823880 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807846953 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cutting into the meatpacking line.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in rural culture".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Cutting into the meatpacking line.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "331.7/6649/00973 21".
- catalog subject "HD8039.P152 U535 1998".
- catalog subject "Packing-house workers United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. What Is Your Problem, Ruth?: An Anthropologist Gets a Job -- 2. What More Better Work Could You Ask For?: Perry Working Men and Meatpacking -- 3. Frankly, She's Not Worth It: Working Through Gender -- 4. Who's Francisco?: Race/Ethnicity and Rural Iowa Workers -- 5. Hey, You Guys Are Not Entitled: The Workings of Class".
- catalog title "Cutting into the meat packing line".
- catalog title "Cutting into the meatpacking line : workers and change in the rural Midwest / Deborah Fink.".
- catalog type "text".