Product Description

SLAUGHTERHOUSE BLUES: THE MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA draws on more than 15 years of research by the authors, a cultural anthropologist and a social geographer, to present a detailed look at the meat and poultry industry in the United States and Canada. Following chapters on today's beef, poultry, and pork industries, SLAUGHTERHOUSE BLUES examines industry impacts on workers and on the communities that host its plants. The book details the authors' efforts to help communities plan for and mitigate the negative consequences of meat and poultry plants as well as community opposition to confined animal feeding operations. The book concludes by exploring alternatives to North America's model of industrialized meat production.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #368846 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-17
• Released on: 2003-04-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Donald D. Stull is professor and past chair of anthropology at the University of Kansas. For almost 30 years, he has conducted basic and applied research throughout the United States. He has authored or coauthored some 40 scholarly articles and chapters and 2 books, produced 3 nationally distributed documentaries, and edited or co edited 4 collections of original essays. From 1988 to 1990, he directed a team of six social scientists in a Ford Foundation study of changing ethnic relations in Garden City, Kansas. In 1995, Stull received the Omer C. Stewart Memorial Award for exemplary achievement from the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology. In 2001, he was presented with the key to Garden City, Kansas, in recognition of the value of his work to that community.

Michael J. Broadway is professor and head of Northern Michigan University's geography department. He is trained as a social geographer and has published a number of articles dealing with inner city deprivation in Canadian cities and the role of tourism in transforming Canadian inner-city landscapes. For most of the past 17 years, Broadway has researched the changing structure of the U.S. and Canadian meatpacking industries and their role in transforming communities. He began his work in Garden City, Kansas, as a member of the Ford Foundation team led by Stull, which examined the nature of relations between established residents and newcomers in the town. Most recently, he received a grant to travel to the United Kingdom to examine its meat industry.