Author: Union Parish (La.). Planning Board
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Category : Union Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Union Parish Resources and Facilities
Author: Union Parish (La.). Planning Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Ascension Parish Resources and Facilities
Author: Ascension Parish (La.). Development Board
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Category : Ascension Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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Publisher:
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Category : Ascension Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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We Just Keep Running the Line
Author: LaGuana Gray
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807157694
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807157694
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Louisiana, Resources and Facilities [by Parish].
Author: Louisiana. Department of Public Works. Planning Division
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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East Feliciana Parish Resources and Facilities
Author: East Feliciana Parish (La.). Development Board
Publisher:
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Category : East Feliciana Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : East Feliciana Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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Subject Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
DeSoto Parish Resources and Facilities
Author: DeSota Parish, La. Development Board
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Planning, Current Literature
Author:
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Category : Transportation planning
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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Category : Transportation planning
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Vermilion Parish Resources and Facilities
Author: Vermilion Parish, La. Planning Board
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
DeSoto Parish Resources and Facilities
Author: DeSoto Parish Development Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : De Soto Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : De Soto Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description