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Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line : Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest Studies in Rural Culture
author
:
Fink, Deborah.
publisher
:
University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0807823880
print isbn13
:
9780807823880
ebook isbn13
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9780807861400
language
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English
subject
Packing-house workers--United States.
publication date
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1998
lcc
:
HD8039.P152U535 1998eb
ddc
:
331.7/6649/00973
subject
:
Packing-house workers--United States.
Page iii
DEBORAH FINK
Cutting into the Meatpacking Line
Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest
Studies in Rural Culture
Jack Temple Kirby, Editor
Page iv
1998 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fink, Deborah, 1944 Cutting into the meatpacking line: workers and change in the rural midwest / Deborah Fink. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2388-0 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4695-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) I. Packing-house workersUnited States. I. Title. HD8039.P152U535 1998 331.7'6649'00973dc21 97-22006 CIP
02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1
Page v
To the memory of Carri Archer To the future of Lorencito Rey Quintanar
Page vii
Contents
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
1 What is Your Problem, Ruth?
An Anthropologist Gets a Job
6
2 What More Better Work Could You Ask for?
Perry Working Men and Meatpacking
39
3 Frankly, She's Not Worth It
Working Through Gender
72
4 Who's Francisco?
Race/Ethnicity and Rural Iowa Workers
113
5 Hey! You Guys are Not Entitled
The Workings of Class
155
Epilogue
191
Notes
203
Index
227
A section of illustrations appears following page 112.
Page ix
Tables
1 Percentage of Iowans Employed in Agriculture and Manufacturing, 19301990
41
2 Distribution of Dallas County Workforce by Industry, 1915
43
3 Comparison of Starting Hourly Wages for Production Workers in Porkpacking Plants, 1990
64
4 Meatpacking Production Workers' Wages as a Percentage of Value Added in Manufacturing, 19191992
65
5 Trends in the Iowa Meatpacking and Processing Industry, 19581992
65
6 Percentage of Manufacturing Jobs in Rural Iowa Held by Women, 19301990
79
7 Gender of Iowans Employed in the Manufacture of "Food and Kindred Products," 19301990
81
8 Birthplace of Perry's Foreign-born Population by Number of Residents, 19101920
120
9 Number of Perry Residents with Foreign-born Fathers, 19101920
121
10 Birthplace of U.S.-born Perry Residents and U.S.-born Fathers of Perry Residents, 1910
122
Page xi
Preface
Having grown up in the rural Midwest, I conformed to the class inequalities laid out in this book before I knew what they were. Even as a child, I knew people who fell outside of most generalizations about the good rural life, and I knew people whose experiences confirmed the ideal of the wholesome heartland. I understood who belonged where in rural society, but I was not aware of what centered or marginalized people. Although I must have picked up something about class in my graduate studies in anthropology, leaving home taught me more than books. In the 1970s I went to Denmark, where I did dissertation fieldwork on the island of Mfn.1 Largely by chance, I entered Danish rural life through the Husmandsforening (Smallholders Union), which at that time was composed largely of wageworkers. The rules of class division are more obvious everywhere from the bottom than from the top, and in the homes of rural Danish laborers I could not escape class analysis. Approaching the study of rural Denmark through the working class, I had the ironies of unspoken class boundaries laid before me daily. In Denmark, which was supposed to have abolished class distinctions, I could discern principles of inequality that had been invisible to me in my own country.
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