Hog wild : the battle for workers' rights at the world's largest slaughterhouse /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Waltz, Lynn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Smithfield Foods, Inc. > Corrupt practices.
Smithfield Foods, Inc. > Employees > Labor unions.
Smithfield Foods, Inc.
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses > North Carolina > Tar Heel > Employees.
Meat industry and trade > North Carolina > Tar Heel > History.
Employee rights > North Carolina.
Personnel > Droits > Caroline du Nord.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Corruption
Employee rights
Employees > Labor unions
Meat industry and trade
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses > Employees
North Carolina
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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