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The chain

by Ted Genoways

Factory farmsIndustrial safetyHormel Foods CorporationMeat industry and tradeFood processing plantsNew York Times reviewed

Ted Genoways uses the story of Hormel Foods and soaring recession-era demand for its most famous product, Spam, to probe the state of the meatpacking industry, including the expansion of agribusiness and the effects of immigrant labor on Middle America.

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Book data: Open Library