Book chapter
The Work of God and Hogs
Meatpacking America, pp.89-134
University of North Carolina Press
09/21/2021
DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469663494.003.0005
Abstract
This chapter is one of the longest chapters as it details the work in a Tyson hog processing plant. The chapter provides an in-depth view of what takes place inside a hog processing plant. The work that the mostly refugee workforce performs is dangerous, bloody, and difficult work. The meat that Americans and people around the world consume is processed by non-whites who labor in one of the most dangerous jobs in America. Tyson, the largest supplier of fresh pork in the world, employs a full-time chaplain at each of its plants, and the work of the chaplain is examined in this chapter. Moreover, the work of the hog producers, those who raise the hogs that make their way to the processing plants is detailed in this chapter. The chapter focuses on the vertical integration of the contemporary processing plant and how the animals from insemination to death are tightly controlled by corporations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Work of God and Hogs
- Creators
- Kristy Nabhan-Warren
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Meatpacking America, pp.89-134
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press; Chapel Hill
- DOI
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469663494.003.0005
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/21/2021
- Academic Unit
- Vice President for Research; History; Religious Studies; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984365159002771
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