| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The story of Joe Luter and Smithfield -- Cheap labor built on a legacy of slavery -- Lots of pigs, lots of poop, lots of politics, lots of pollution -- The plant opens, the work is beastly, the union fight heats up -- The first union vote -- The plant changes southeastern North Carolina -- The company woman -- The second union vote, 1997 -- The trial : Buffkin and Luter testify -- The judge rules -- Organizing on the road -- Gene Bruskin rides into town -- The union campaign, Harris Teeter -- Ludlum is back : Immigration enforcement tightens -- Workers walk off the job -- The stockholders, secret talks, stalemate -- Rico, the settlement, the third union vote, the end. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Smithfield Foods, Inc. -- Corrupt practices.
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Smithfield Foods, Inc. -- Employees -- Labor unions.
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Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
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Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- North Carolina -- Tar Heel -- Employees.
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Meat industry and trade -- North Carolina -- Tar Heel -- History.
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Employee rights -- North Carolina.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Corruption |
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Employee rights |
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Employees -- Labor unions |
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Meat industry and trade |
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Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- Employees |
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North Carolina |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Waltz, Lynn. Hog wild. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018] 9781609385712 (DLC) 2017041006 |
| ISBN |
9781609385729 |
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1609385721 |
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9781609385866 |
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1609385861 |
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9781609385712 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781609385859 |
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