The Heartland's Raw Deal: How Meatpacking Is Creating a New Immigrant Underclass.

Cooper, Marc

Notes FAQ Contact Us

Back to results

ERIC Number: EJ539973

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1997

Pages: N/A

Abstractor: N/A

ISBN: N/A

ISSN: ISSN-0027-8378

EISSN: N/A

Available Date: N/A

The Heartland's Raw Deal: How Meatpacking Is Creating a New Immigrant Underclass.

Cooper, Marc

Nation, v264 n4 p11-12,14-17 Feb 3 1997

Meatpacking communities in America's Midwest have become home to thousands of impoverished immigrant workers from Mexico, Central America, and Laos, recruited to work in poor and dangerous working conditions for low wages and no benefits. Suggests that public policy needs to address protecting and improving the situation of immigrant workers. (LP)

Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Workers, Immigrants, Labor Standards, Laotians, Meat Packing Industry, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, Occupational Safety and Health, Poverty, Public Policy, Racial Relations, Rural Areas, Undocumented Immigrants, Unions, Work Environment

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

Education Level: N/A

Audience: N/A

Language: English

Sponsor: N/A

Authoring Institution: N/A

Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A

Author Affiliations: N/A