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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 | |