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Written by Deborah Fink
Edition: 1998
Format(s): EPUB
Language: English
Release date: March 18, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0807846953 | ISBN-13: 978-0807846957
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.
Review
A chilling portrait of how economic restructuring reshapes everyday life and exacerbates longstanding oppressions of class, race, and gender.
Journal of American History
Forceful, visual, evocative, and well-placed .
Nebraska History
A model of American social and labor history.
Choice
[H]er important study of working people in Perry, Iowa, evokes the horror, grimness, and humor of rural working-class life.
Nancy Gabin, Purdue University
From the Inside Flap
Drawing on firsthand experience working in an Iowa pork-processing plant, Fink looks at the differing experience of male and female, immigrant and native-born, black and white workers in the meatpacking industry.
Product Details
Series: Studies in Rural Culture
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (March 18, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807846953
ISBN-13: 978-0807846957
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