Hog wild : the battle for workers' rights at the world's largest slaughterhouse / Lynn Waltz.
Author/creator |
Waltz, Lynn author. |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018] |
Description | 1 online resource |
Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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Contents | The story of Joe Luter and Smithfield -- Cheap labor built on a legacy of slavery -- Lots of pigs, lots of poop, lots of politics, lots of pollution -- The plant opens, the work is beastly, the union fight heats up -- The first union vote -- The plant changes southeastern North Carolina -- The company woman -- The second union vote, 1997 -- The trial : Buffkin and Luter testify -- The judge rules -- Organizing on the road -- Gene Bruskin rides into town -- The union campaign, Harris Teeter -- Ludlum is back : Immigration enforcement tightens -- Workers walk off the job -- The stockholders, secret talks, stalemate -- Rico, the settlement, the third union vote, the end. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
Source of description | Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
Issued in other form | Print version: Waltz, Lynn. Hog wild. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018] 9781609385712 |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 2018025121 |
ISBN | 9781609385729 |
ISBN | 1609385721 |
ISBN | 9781609385866 |
ISBN | 1609385861 |
ISBN | (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
Stock number | 22573/ctvq4ph0 JSTOR |
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Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |