Hamlet fire : a tragic story of cheap food, cheap government, and cheap lives.

For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simon, Bryant (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Temas:
Imperial Food Products. > Plant (Hamlet, N.C.) > Fire, 1991.
1991
Poultry plants > Fires and fire prevention > North Carolina > Hamlet.
Employers' liability > North Carolina > Hamlet.
Industrial safety > Government policy > United States.
Sécurité du travail > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Poultry plants > Fires and fire prevention.
Industrial safety > Government policy.
Employers' liability.
North Carolina > Hamlet.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Hamlet
  • 2. Silence
  • 3. Chicken
  • 4. Labor
  • 5. Bodies
  • 6. Deregulation
  • 7. Endings
  • Epilogue
  • In Memoriam
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Z
  • About the Author

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