Introduction : making meat / David Griffith, Michael J. Broadway, and Donald D. Stull -- From city to countryside : recent changes in the structure and location of the meat- and fish-processing industries / Michael J. Broadway -- On the horns of a dilemma : the U.S. meat and poultry industry / Steve Bjerklie -- Killing them softly : work in meatpacking plants and what it does to workers / Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway -- Dances with cows : beefpacking's impact on Garden City, Kansas, and Lexington, Nebraska / Lourdes Gouveia and Donald D. Stull -- Pork, poultry, and newcomers in Storm Lake, Iowa / Mark A. Grey -- Hay Trabajo : poultry processing, rural industrialization, and the Latinization of low-wage labor ; New immigrants in an old industry : blue crab processing in Pamlico County, North Carolina / David Griffith -- Industries, immigrants, and illness in the new Midwest / Robert A. Hackenberg and Gary Kukulka -- The kill line : facts of life, proposals for change / Bob Hall -- Conclusion : Joe Hill died for your sins, empowering minority workers in the new industrial labor force / Robert A. Hackenberg
