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Series Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Introduction | |
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The Tour | |
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Studying the Meat and Poultry Industry�and Why | |
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Setting the Table | |
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More Inputs, Fewer Farms | |
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Eat In or Eat Out? | |
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Agricultural Industrialization | |
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Consequences of Agricultural Industrialization for the Meat and Poultry Industry | |
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Conclusions | |
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From Roundups to Restructuring: The Beef Industry | |
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A Branding on the Flying V | |
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The Cattle Kingdom | |
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Home on the Range: The Short, Happy Life of a Beef Cow | |
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Go West, Young Steer, Go West | |
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From Hogsheads to Disassembly Lines: The Rise of the Meatpacking Industry | |
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Beef packing Moves to the Country: Relocating and Restructuring the Industry | |
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Chicken Little, Chicken Big: The Poultry Industry | |
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Down on the Farm | |
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Poultry Production and Consumption in the Early Twentieth Century | |
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Mrs. Steele's Chicks: The Birth of the Modern Poultry Industry | |
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Industrializing, Integrating, and Marketing the Chicken | |
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Contract Growing and Factory Farming | |
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Big Chicken Comes to Roost in Kentucky | |
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Old MacDonald Takes a Factory Job: How Chickens Are Grown, 1998 | |
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The Sky Is Falling | |
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Deus Ex Machina | |
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Justice Denied | |
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Hog Heaven: The Pork Industry | |
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The Essence of Pig | |
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The Road to Porkopolis | |
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Hog Heaven or Hell? | |
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Miss Piggy's New Frontiers | |
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Is Meat Murder? | |
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Animal Liberation | |
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Twenty-First Century Abolitionists | |
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"Nature Is Cruel, but We Don't Have to Be" | |
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment | |
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"Confined Is Not Kind" | |
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Happier Meals | |
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So, Is Meat Murder? | |
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The Human Price of Our Meat | |
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The Jungle | |
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"On to Organize" | |
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"It Don't Pay Great" | |
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Meatpacking Has Always Been Dangerous | |
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On the Line | |
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"A Lot of People Leave" | |
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On the Floor at Running Iron Beef | |
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The Walkout | |
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Anthropologists in the Jungle | |
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Managing Running Iron Beef | |
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Running Iron Beef's Workforce | |
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Labor Issues | |
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Corporate and "Work Cultures at Running Iron Beef | |
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Cultural and Language Differences | |
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Our Final Report and Its Impact | |
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Garden City, Kansas: Harvest of Change | |
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Beefpacking's Golden Triangle | |
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The Fastest Growing Town in Kansas | |
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The Changing Relations Project | |
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Will It Ever Settle Down? | |
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What Goes Up Must Come Down | |
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Garden City's Great Big Meat Adventure: 30 Years and Counting | |
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Don't Shoot the Messenger: Technical Assistance to Packinghouse Towns | |
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The Pliancy Factor | |
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Community Development Models | |
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Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst | |
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Brooks: "City of a Hundred Hellos" | |
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Community Study Teams: The Ideal and the Real | |
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What Can Host Communities Do, and When Must They Do It? | |
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The Way Forward | |
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Not in My Backyard: Community Opposition to the Meat and Poultry Industry | |
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Western Kentucky's Tour de Stench | |
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The Sierra Club Takes on Big Chicken | |
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A Fight Lost, a Fight to Be Won: Big Pig in Alberta | |
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Let the Match Recommence | |
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The Decision and Its Aftermath | |
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Save Our Jobs! | |
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Food for Thought | |
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Brave New Animal Wodd | |
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How Now Mad Cow in the United States? | |
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What's in That Ham Sandwich? | |
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Plenty More Where That Came From | |
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Meatpacking and Uncle Sam | |
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Meat Me in Court | |
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch | |
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Organic and Natural | |
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Voting with Your Stomach | |
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The Meat and Poultry Industry: History Repeated? | |
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References | |
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Index | |