Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
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Category : Environmental health
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1320

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1288

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
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Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: LaGuana Gray
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807157708
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkansas and North Louisiana surrounding El Dorado, and the fates of many related companies and farms depended on its continued financial success. We Just Keep Running the Line is the story of the rise of the poultry processing industry in El Dorado and the labor force -- composed primarily of black women -- upon which it came to rely. At a time when agricultural jobs were in decline and Louisiana stood at the forefront of rising anti-welfare sentiment, much of the work available in the area went to men, driving women into less attractive, labor-intensive jobs. LaGuana Gray argues that the justification for placing African American women in the lowest-paying and most dangerous of these jobs, like poultry processing, derives from longstanding mischaracterizations of black women by those in power. In evaluating the perception of black women as "less" than white women -- less feminine, less moral, less deserving of social assistance, and less invested in their families' and communities' well-being -- Gray illuminates the often-exploitative nature of southern labor, the growth of the agribusiness model of food production, and the role of women of color in such food industries. Using collected oral histories to allow marginalized women of color to tell their own stories and to contest and reshape narratives commonly used against them, We Just Keep Running the Line explores the physical and psychological toll this work took on black women, analyzing their survival strategies and their fight to retain their humanity in an exploitative industry.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Health and Safety
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Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Abstract: The hearing examines the problems of contaminated poultry which tests show that well over half the raw chickesn in the U.S. are contaminated with a bacteria that claims 2,000 lives annually, makes 4 million people sick and results in $2 billion medical and lost work bills every year.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1020

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
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Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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