Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Factories
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Hearing on H.R. 3160, Comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act, and the Fire at the Imperial Food Products Plant in Hamlet, North Carolina
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Factories
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Hearing on H.R. 3160, Comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act, and the Fire at the Imperial Food Products Plant in Hamlet, North Carolina
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Factories
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Hearings on H.R. 3160, the Comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The Hamlet Fire
Author: Bryant SimonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469661373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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 shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing plant a stone's throw from Hamlet's city hall burst into flames. Twenty-five people perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination. Using oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.
The Tragedy at Imperial Food Products
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Together at the Table
Author: Patricia AllenPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027102268X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically grown fruits and vegetables for their own use and to sell at market. In Madison, Wisconsin, shoppers select their food from a bounty of choices at a vibrant farmers’ market. Together at the Table is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future. At the heart of these efforts are the movements for sustainable agriculture and community food security. Both movements seek to reconstruct the agrifood system—the food production chain, from the growing of crops to food production and distribution—to become more ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Allen describes the ways in which people working in these movements view the world and how they see their place in challenging and reshaping the agrifood system. She also shows how ideas and practices of sustainable agriculture and community food security have already woven their way into the dominant agrifood institutions. Allen explores the possibilities this process may hold for improving social and environmental justice in the American agrifood system. Together at the Table is an important reminder that much work still remains to be done. Now that the ideas and priorities of alternative food movements have taken hold, it is time for the next—even more challenging—step. Alternative agrifood movements must acknowledge and address the deeper structural and cultural patterns that constrain the long-term resolution of social and environmental problems in the agrifood system.
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the WorkforcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description