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We Just Keep Running the Line : Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkansas and North Louisiana surrounding El Dorado, and the fates of many related companies and farms depe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
LSU Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkansas and North Louisiana surrounding El Dorado, and the fates of many related companies and farms depended on its continued financial success. We Just Keep Running the Line is the story of the rise of the poultry processing industry in El Dorado and the labor force-composed primarily of black women-upon which it came to rely. At a time when agricultural jobs were in decline and Louisiana stood at the. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807157695 |